18. During Lent of this Holy Year, I intend to send out
Missionaries of Mercy. They will be a sign of the Church’s maternal solicitude
for the People of God, enabling them to enter the profound richness of this
mystery so fundamental to the faith. There will be priests to whom I will grant
the authority to pardon even those sins reserved to the Holy See, so that the
breadth of their mandate as confessors will be even clearer. They will be,
above all, living signs of the Father’s readiness to welcome those in search of
his pardon. They will be missionaries of mercy because they will be
facilitators of a truly human encounter, a source of liberation, rich with
responsibility for overcoming obstacles and taking up the new life of Baptism
again. They will be led in their mission by the words of the Apostle: “For God
has consigned all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all” (Rom
11:32). Everyone, in fact, without exception, is called to embrace the call to
mercy. May these Missionaries live this call with the assurance that they can
fix their eyes on Jesus, “the merciful and faithful high priest in the service
of God” (Heb 2:17).
Rorate Caeli blog has listed those crimes or sins in the
Code of Canon Law reserved for the Holy See:
Can. 1367. A person who throws away the consecrated species
or takes or retains them for a sacrilegious purpose incurs a latae sententiae
excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See; moreover, a cleric can be
punished with another penalty, not excluding dismissal from the clerical state.
Can. 1370 §1. A person who uses physical force against the
Roman Pontiff incurs a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the
Apostolic See; if he is a cleric, another penalty, not excluding dismissal from
the clerical state, can be added according to the gravity of the delict.
Can. 1378 §1. A priest who acts against the prescript of
can. 977 incurs a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic
See. (Can. 977. The absolution of an
accomplice in a sin against the sixth commandment of the Decalogue is invalid
except in danger of death.)
Can. 1382 A bishop who consecrates someone a bishop without
a pontifical mandate and the person who receives the consecration from him
incur a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See.
Can. 1388 §1. A confessor who directly violates the
sacramental seal incurs a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the
Apostolic See; one who does so only indirectly is to be punished according to
the gravity of the delict.
To these may be added a sixth offense, by virtue of a decree
of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith dated December 19, 2007:
Without prejudice to the prescript of can. 1378 of the Code
of Canon Law, both the one who attempts to confer a sacred order on a woman,
and the woman who attempts to receive a sacred order, incur an excommunication
latae sententiae reserved to the Apostolic See.
If, in fact, the one who attempts to confer a sacred order
on a woman, or the woman who attempts to receive a sacred order, is one of
Christ’s faithful subject to the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, that
person, without prejudice to the prescript of can. 1443 of the same Code, is to
be punished with a major excommunication, the remission of which is also
reserved to the Apostolic See (cf. can. 1423, Code of Canons of the Eastern
Churches).
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We can agree that there are many abuses of the Holy
Eucharist. Punching a pope has not been an issue lately. There really are not that many situations of the conferral of a sacred order on a woman (impossible regardless). We hope all will be forgiven and we see a welcoming home
of the SSPX bishops.
Seriously? These Missionaries of Mercy are going to travel the world
for these?
What am I missing; or do I already know?
I suspect that one of the tasks of these flying Missionaries of Mercy will be to override the established Canonical process of annulments as a way of getting around the doctrine of the indissolubility of marriage and provide easy and blanket annulments. "See," they will say. "We have not changed doctrine."
What else will these Missionaries of Mercy undertake?
I suspect that one of the tasks of these flying Missionaries of Mercy will be to override the established Canonical process of annulments as a way of getting around the doctrine of the indissolubility of marriage and provide easy and blanket annulments. "See," they will say. "We have not changed doctrine."
What else will these Missionaries of Mercy undertake?
3 comments:
" They will be missionaries of mercy because they will be facilitators of a truly human encounter"Surely there's something more then human in the Sacrament of confession ? When you encounter Christ in the Sacraments do you not encounter the Divine.
He has revealed his strategy for unraveling Canon Law and thus dogma through his " ministers of mercy".
So let me get this strait. Pope Francis just made EASIER to be forgiven for punching him in the face. Doesn't that make him guilty of tempting some people to sin?
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