tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61259732691292075792024-02-18T19:42:48.207-08:00Casa Santa LidiaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger413125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125973269129207579.post-3312810629239589952022-01-15T11:31:00.005-08:002022-04-30T08:41:00.818-07:00Separation of the Spouses: A canon lawyer's opinion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVVqm7AONTdOLamlKb8NKfSKE-QCpONMnrZzfYfqia-jeOhMSOQJ1ZgvAy0FDmEKEkRcc_39q89l60dMYDw9vjF5eyBeM_njjc87Lstmg2_pwXghszHvGObVVN6iPoB-MuGo5ZwolXKg2SAvTKiY55UEa7i8y8AP0rQock_6FwialhD0JQjKWU84OQ=s1472" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="729" data-original-width="1472" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVVqm7AONTdOLamlKb8NKfSKE-QCpONMnrZzfYfqia-jeOhMSOQJ1ZgvAy0FDmEKEkRcc_39q89l60dMYDw9vjF5eyBeM_njjc87Lstmg2_pwXghszHvGObVVN6iPoB-MuGo5ZwolXKg2SAvTKiY55UEa7i8y8AP0rQock_6FwialhD0JQjKWU84OQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table cellpadding="0" class="cf gJ"><tbody><tr class="acZ"><td class="gF gK"><br /></td><td class="gF gK"><br /></td><td class="gF gK"><br /></td><td class="gF gK"><br /></td><td class="gF gK"><br /></td><td class="gF gK"><br /></td><td class="gF gK"><br /></td><td class="gF gK"><br /></td><td class="gF gK"><br /></td><td class="gF gK"><br /></td><td class="gF gK"><br /></td><td class="gF gK"><br /></td><td class="gF gK"><br /></td><td class="gF gK"><br /></td><td class="gH bAk"><br /></td></tr><tr class="acZ"><td class="gH"><br /></td><td class="gH"><br /></td><td class="gH"><br /></td><td class="gH"><br /></td><td class="gH"><br /></td><td class="gH acX bAm" rowspan="2"><table cellpadding="0" class="cf gJ"><tbody><tr class="acZ"><td class="gF gK"><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This
is an obscure topic, but one that I see every few years on social
media. It illustrates what I often say, which is that canon law is not
rocket science or brain surgery but is one of the "a little knowledge is
a dangerous thing" disciplines. People who have no formal training in
canon law and who then have not applied that knowledge and gained further training and expertise by serving in the Catholic Church's courts (tribunals) are
really out of their depths on this.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">At this point I've
encountered about a dozen or so people -- in person and online -- who claim that
their spouse failed to get the permission of the bishop for a divorce
before or when the spouse left, and that as such the departing spouse is guilty of grave sin and/or is excommunicated. There is at least one website that keeps promoting this idea, that a bishop's permission is necessary to file for divorce. These people often cite Church laws which are no longer in
effect regarding <u><b>civil separations</b></u>. In particular, they refer to a certain Article from the Third Plenary
Council of Baltimore (1884), now in legal desuetude, that said that Catholics were not to seek a <b><u>separation from civil courts</u>
-- a civil separation "from bed and board," <u>not a divorce</u> </b>-- without <u>consulting</u> Catholic Church authorities first. According to Article 126, Catholics joined in marriage "...are not to go to civil tribunals to obtain a separation from bed and board without consulting ecclesiastical authorities. He who attempts this should know he incurs a grave charge {offence} upon himself and is to be punished according to the Bishop's judgment" (</span><span style="font-size: medium;">"...ne inconsulta auctoritate ecclesiastica, tribunalia civilia adeant ad
obtinendam separationem a thoro et mensa. Quod si quis attentaverit,
sciat se gravem reatum incurrere et pro Episcopi judicio puniendum esse"). [The word "reatum" is used -- an offense or charge -- but not "peccatum" -- sin.]<br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It did not specify what the punishment should be, but left it up to the bishop, if the situation ever even made it to his desk. Therefore, in addition to all other vitiating or obsolescing factors, lacking a <u>specific</u> punishment like an interdict or excommunication, the notion of punishment in this regard no longer holds any canonical weight or force. </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In some legal systems, "separation from bed and board" is called a "divorce from bed and board" -- but this is not the same as a divorce in the general sense that we are familiar with in the common law legal system of the United States of the civil effects being ended between the parties (the primary civil effect being that one's spouse is no longer first in line to inherit one's assets if one dies). This provision of </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">the Third Plenary
Council of Baltimore</span> was suitable for the times, and still has hortatory value, given that many Catholic spouses today seem to simply give up on a marriage -- at about the same rate as the general non-Catholic population. </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But, similar to so many other provisions of Baltimore III, some of great importance and others now deemed trivial -- like the "absolute obligation" of each parish pastor to establish a parochial school as well as the obligation of Catholic parents to send their children there (and the schools were to be free or of minimal tuition), and the requirement that priests' suit jackets were to reach at least to their knees -- it is no longer binding. Arguments about what provisions would still exist despite the 1917 and 1983 Codes are not relevant.<br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is where the concept of the "ius vigens" comes in: the current laws now in effect, which supplant older laws -- though often in reality the current laws are simply an updated expression or partial modification of older laws. <b>At any rate, the phrase "is not to go to civil courts for a {therefore obviously civil} separation without consulting ecclesiastical authorities," has in some people's minds become, "must have bishop's permission to divorce." Clearly, this is incorrect and a complete misreading of the original provision of Article 126, which is now in legal desuetude anyway. </b> It was written at a time when even the canonical form of marriage had yet to be universally established (Ne Temere, 1908).<br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mostly they seem to want
their former spouses punished by the Church, and especially to be refused Holy Communion. They regard the departing spouse's actions as sinful, and therefore the spouse -- unrepentant in their eyes -- should be denied the Eucharist. There are, of course, people who approach the Eucharist unworthily. Many people who are poorly catechized approach the altar having committed sins "with or without full knowledge," as expressed in the exquisite prayer of the Maronite Catholic liturgy. Worthy reception of Holy Communion is an issue in our times, but canon lawyers are not hovering at the back of the parish church waiting to apprehend people who unjustly leave their spouses.<br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If a person's marriage has unraveled and the couple themselves, plus their respective families of origin, their other relatives and friends, their marriage counselors, their parish priests and fellow parishioners have been unable to get things back on track, a bunch of canon lawyers and even (or especially?) their own bishop are probably not going to be able to intervene and rectify matters for them, where everyone else has failed, and enact the kind of justice that some of these people seem to want. <br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>~ </span><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is my best attempt at this, and even I walk a tightrope on this topic as a Rome-trained canon lawyer who has served as both a first and second instance tribunal judge as well as a first and second instance defender of the bond over the last 13 years. <br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The key difference is that of civil divorce versus civil separation. It is even incorrect to say "civil divorce" in this context, because there is no "ecclesiastical divorce"</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> (<i>pace </i>the people who say an "annulment" is merely this kind of divorce -- that topic is for another day). Divorce is a process of secular laws in countries with the common law legal system (though it certainly exists in countries with the civil law legal system -- there are numerous articles online regarding the differences between the common law and civil law legal systems and their respective origins).</b> <br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
Code of Canon Law is silent on the topic of divorce. If you
conduct a word-search of the Code, you will not find the word divorce in
any variant in any language.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Catholic
matrimonial cases (matrimonial "causes" -- causas matrimoniales) belong to Catholic
tribunals, but divorce is not a matrimonial case. Divorce is divorce: it is the
antithesis of a matrimonial case. In addition to a canonical separation, the matrimonial cases are these, as
listed in the Code: cases of invalidity or nullity of marriage on
formal grounds, the cases of invalidity or nullity due to absence or defect of canonical form, the Pauline
or Petrine/favor of the faith cases, ligamen/prior bond cases, radical
sanation (sanatio-in-radice) cases, cases of dissolution due to non-consummation of a
sacramental marriage (ratum sed non consummatum), with additional cases of invalidity of a marriage due to failure to obtain delegation or a dispensation when required, and cases of simple convalidation. There are the additional factors of other impediments (consanguinity, Holy Orders, crime, impotence, and the others mentioned in canons 1083 - 1094). <b> But all this is to say that "divorce" is not a "matrimonial case."</b><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u><b>Divorce</b></u> is called by
the Catechism of the Catholic Church "immoral" and "an offense against
the dignity of marriage," and "a grave offense against the natural law," but it also "can be tolerated" if there is no
other way to ensure certain legal rights in the civil forum -- and that is
typically the case in the United States (see the Catechism, #2382 - 2386), given what our secular laws are like. </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Obviously,
the vast majority of married people who split up in the US (Catholics
included) seek a divorce from the secular courts, <u><b>not a civil
separation</b></u>.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If
it truly is a case of a Catholic seeking to obtain a canonical decree
of separation (rather than a civil separation or even a divorce from a
secular court), there is debate among some canonists whether a
canonical separation can be employed or if it is even applicable outside
of the Holy See's Concordat nations. But in either case, Concordat nation or not, the
operative word in the current law in effect (the "ius vigens" of the
1983 Code of Canon Law) is that the bishop <b>"can"</b> decree the canonical
separation of the spouses, <b>not "must."</b> It is optional --
and indeed a party is to go to the civil forum from the start if a <u><b>civil
separation</b></u> is being sought in countries where ecclesiastical decisions
have no civil effects, like in the US. This in itself would seem to indicate that the procedure of canonical separation of the spouses truly is only for Concordat nations (and perhaps the Philippines, which to the best of my knowledge is the last country on earth -- except for Vatican City State -- where divorce remains illegal). Indeed the lack of familiarity among canonists in common law countries is in part due to the fact that the canons on separation are not applicable outside of Concordat areas -- it's not as if somehow the bishops of these places and their tribunals were ignorant or failing to follow the law: the Apostolic Signatura certainly lets tribunals know when they are failing to follow or uphold canon law, even though there is not much they can do to directly effect any changes or improvements. For example, a number of tribunals in the US have received comments from the Signatura after submitting their annual mandatory report that, "it is noted that at your tribunal there were no appeals lodged by the defender of the bond in some years," or "it has been noted that no negative sentences have been issued in the last ten years" (and I personally recall one nullity case where "Error of Person" was used as a <i>caput nullitatis</i> -- the Signatura certainly wanted a full explanation of that...!).</span><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Even
so, <u><b>only the innocent spouse can request from the bishop a decree of
separation</b></u> -- <u><b>only the innocent spouse can become the separating spouse</b></u> -- and it cannot mean that the person would then go
on to seek a divorce from a civil/secular court. The canons on the
separation of the spouses are primarily oriented toward a situation of adultery, and this is clear from how they are written. These canons never can be used to hound a spouse who has decided to leave common life for one reason
or another ("unhappiness" or wanting to "find themselves" or other reasons not related to adultery) by saying, "you never got permission from the bishop." <br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Given
that <u><b>only</b></u> the innocent spouse can become the separating spouse [canons
1152 - 1155] -- it must be for reasons mentioned in these canons, namely, adulterous conduct: for example, the other spouse repeatedly
bringing his or her paramour home and parading this person in front of
the children, and/or infecting the innocent spouse with a venereal disease, etc. </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In
cases of abuse or violence, a spouse can depart freely anyway -- the Church will
not ask anyone to live in a domestic situation where they are in danger.<br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But let us look at what the law says. </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><u><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></u></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><u><span style="font-size: medium;">The first set of laws is about the circumstances which can justify petitioning for a canonical separation while the matrimonial bond remains (canons 1151 to 1155).</span></u></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><u><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></u></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><u><span style="font-size: medium;">The second set of laws is about the <b>procedure</b> for a canonical separation (canons 1692 - 1696).<br /></span></u></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="m_388067833427201538_SL_4.1.0.7.9.2"><p class="MsoNormal"><u><b>SEPARATION WHILE THE BOND REMAINS </b></u><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
</a></span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="m_388067833427201538_SL_4.1.0.7.9.2.1151">Can.
1151: Spouses have the obligation and the right to maintain their common
conjugal life, unless a lawful reason excuses them. <b>[The "lawful reason" listed below in these canons is that of adultery. The "unlawful" reasons to exit common life would perhaps be general unhappiness or wanting to "find oneself" or other reasons -- however, there are no laws which deal with such things: it is merely a matter of a spouse "unlawfully" leaving common life, for which there is no formal remedy in canon law. If a spouse does not live up to the obligation to maintain common life because he or she simply wishes to leave, even for trivial reasons, there is nothing that canon law can do. In such cases, a spouse who wishes to remain faithful to his or her commitment to marriage is in a difficult situation, but not one that can be fixed by canon law.]</b><br /></a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="m_388067833427201538_SL_4.1.0.7.9.2.1151"><br /></a></span></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="m_388067833427201538_SL_4.1.0.7.9.2.1151">
</a></span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="m_388067833427201538_SL_4.1.0.7.9.2.1152"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Can.
1152 §1: It is earnestly recommended that a spouse, motivated by christian
charity and solicitous for the good of the family, should not refuse to pardon
an adulterous partner and should not sunder the conjugal life. Nevertheless, if
that spouse has not either expressly or tacitly condoned the other's fault, he
or she has the right to sever the common conjugal life, provided he or she has
not consented to the adultery, nor been the cause of it, nor also committed
adultery. <b>[Again, this is about a truly innocent spouse whose husband or wife has committed adultery.]</b></span></span><br /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="m_388067833427201538_SL_4.1.0.7.9.2.1152"><br /></a></span></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="m_388067833427201538_SL_4.1.0.7.9.2.1152">
<p class="MsoNormal">§2: Tacit
condonation occurs if the innocent spouse, after becoming aware of the
adultery, has willingly engaged in a marital relationship <b>[conjugal relations]</b> with the other
spouse; it <b>[condonation or resuming conjugal relations despite the adultery]</b> is presumed, however, if the innocent spouse has maintained the
common conjugal life for six months, and has not had recourse to ecclesiastical
or to civil authority. <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">§3: Within
six months of having spontaneously terminated the common conjugal life, the
innocent spouse is to bring a case for separation to the competent
ecclesiastical authority. Having examined all the circumstances, this authority
is to consider whether the innocent spouse can be brought to condone the fault
and not prolong the separation permanently. <b>[An innocent spouse whose husband or wife committed adultery and has ceased conjugal relations, and cannot pardon the offending spouse and/or resume conjugal relations, is to petition for an ecclesiastical separation -- HOWEVER, the procedures of the next set of canons on separation -- cc. 1692 - 1696 -- apply here; see below.]</b><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
</a></span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="m_388067833427201538_SL_4.1.0.7.9.2.1153">Can.
1153 §1: A spouse who occasions grave danger of soul or body to the other or to
the children, or otherwise makes the common life unduly difficult, provides the
other spouse with a reason to leave, either by a decree of the local Ordinary
or, if there is danger in delay, even on his or her own authority. <b>[In cases where one spouse endangers the souls or bodies of the other spouse and/or the children, or makes common life "unduly difficult" -- these are the other "lawful reasons" for leaving common life under the same roof, but these reasons, no matter how lawful, do not constitute a right to file for divorce. Again, the Code of Canon Law is silent on divorce. It is the Catechism which describes divorce.]</b><br /></a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="m_388067833427201538_SL_4.1.0.7.9.2.1153"><br /></a></span></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="m_388067833427201538_SL_4.1.0.7.9.2.1153">
<p class="MsoNormal">§2: In all
cases <b>[in all <u>actual cases of canonical separation decreed</u> by ecclesiastical authority]</b>, when the reason for separation ceases, the common conjugal life is to be
restored, unless otherwise provided by ecclesiastical authority. <b>[This presumes that ecclesiastical authority has in fact been asked to intervene by the innocent spouse and an actual case of canonical separation of the spouses exists, and the relevant church authority has issued a determination regarding the separation of the spouses, and in that determination has expressed certain <u>provisions</u>, whatever they might be. But if an actual canonical case of spousal separation does not exist -- that is, if the innocent spouse did not petition for a separation or if he or she did submit a petition but did not receive permission to separate -- then this canon is moot.]</b><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
</a></span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="m_388067833427201538_SL_4.1.0.7.9.2.1153"></a><a name="m_388067833427201538_SL_4.1.0.7.9.2.1154">Can.
1154: When a separation of spouses has taken place <b>[again, this is regarding an actual canonical case of separation of the spouses which was petitioned for by an innocent spouse and where the separation was decreed by proper ecclesiastical authority]</b>, provision is always, and in
good time, to be made for the due maintenance and upbringing of the children. <br /></a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="m_388067833427201538_SL_4.1.0.7.9.2.1154"><br /></a></span></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="m_388067833427201538_SL_4.1.0.7.9.2.1154">
</a></span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="m_388067833427201538_SL_4.1.0.7.9.2.1154"></a><a name="m_388067833427201538_SL_4.1.0.7.9.2.1155">Can.
1155: The innocent spouse may laudably readmit the other spouse to the conjugal
life, in which case he or she renounces the right to separation. </a></span></span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>Here is the second set of separation canons, which have to do with procedures.</u><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><u><b><span style="font-size: medium;">CASES OF SEPARATION OF SPOUSES</span></b></u></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Can.
1692 §1: Unless other provision is legitimately made in particular
places, a decree of the diocesan bishop or a judicial sentence can<b> [not
"must"]</b> decide the personal separation of baptized spouses according to
the norm of the following canons.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">§2:
Where an ecclesiastical decision has no civil effects <b>[e.g., in the
United States] </b>or if a civil sentence is not contrary to divine law
<b>[e.g., if the civil sentence of a separation from a civil/secular court would claim that matrimony is not a sacrament among the
baptized]</b>, the bishop of the diocese of the residence of the spouses,
after having weighed the special circumstances, can <b>[not "must"]</b> grant
permission to approach the civil forum <b>[FOR A CIVIL SEPARATION -- as we
are still talking about civil separation and not about divorce, and certainly not "permission for divorce"].</b></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">§3:
If a case concerns only the merely civil effects of marriage, the
<b>[ecclesiastical]</b> judge, after having observed the prescript of §2, is to
try to defer the case to the civil forum from the start <b>[again, this
means in the United States, and for a CIVIL SEPARATION, not a divorce -- the civil effects of a civil separation from a civil/secular court would be those pertaining to inheritance, financial support or insurance and pension, etc.].</b></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Can.
1693 §1: Unless a party or the promoter of justice requests the
ordinary contentious process, the oral contentious process is to be
used <b>[FOR ACTUAL CASES OF CANONICAL SEPARATION]</b>. §2. If the ordinary contentious process has been used and an
appeal is proposed, the tribunal of second grade, observing what is
required, is to proceed according to the norm of ⇒ can. 1682, §2.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Can. 1694: The prescripts of ⇒ can. 1673 are to be observed in what pertains to the competence of the tribunal.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Can.
1695: Before accepting the case <b>[THE CANONICAL SEPARATION CASE]</b> and whenever there
is hope of a favorable outcome, the judge<b> [who has to be petitioned by
one of the parties -- indeed by the innocent spouse only -- as the ecclesiastical judge can't just
jump in on his own]</b> is to use pastoral means to reconcile the spouses
and persuade them to restore conjugal living <b>[that is, before a petition
for a canonical separation is accepted, and obviously long before any
thought of one or both of the parties about a divorce, the judge is to see if the innocent spouse is willing to forego petitioning for a canonical separation and continue with or resume common life]. [And one more time, only the
innocent spouse can petition for this -- only the innocent spouse can
become the separating spouse].</b></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Can.
1696: Cases concerning the separation of spouses also pertain to the
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them according to the norm of ⇒ can. 1433. <b> [This presumes, once again, that there is an actual canonical case -- that is, a petition from an innocent spouse for separation, which has been accepted by the bishop personally or via his diocesan tribunal -- and only then does a promoter of justice become involved.]</b><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">~</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The moral of the story is that non-canonists should not attempt to offer canonical opinions or assertions when even seasoned canonists hesitate to do so. And Catholics should not accept canon law advice or opinions from non-canonists. </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After repeated contact
and (admittedly futile) conversations with some of the people who kept insisting that their spouse failed to get the bishop's permission for divorce, and consequently should be excommunicated or otherwise punished, in some cases it began to be clear why the person's husband or wife departed common life.</span> <br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Among the incorrect statements and opinions out there on the internet by non-canonists, once in a while a real howler turns up just to lighten the mood -- as below. "Divorce a grave sin -- needs bishops permission," is one of my favorites. </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; 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<span style="background-color: white; color: #500050; font-family: garamond, serif; font-size: large;">It's August in New York, so I thought a nice, cool reminder of last winter would be in order (my present abode, occupied by yours truly, plus the Divine Prisoner in the chapel, and, intermittently, a mouse in the kitchen). This summer, however, has been mild so far: after a couple of toasty weeks in June, the withering heat and humidity of July and August has failed to materialize...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: garamond, serif; font-size: large;">I mentioned somewhere here before that I embarked upon this whole blogging business while I was living in Rome during canon law studies, immersed in the Eternal City's "arcane circles of ecclesiastical scholars," as Slate called it (<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2011/08/vivat_latinitas.single.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.slate.com/<wbr></wbr>articles/arts/culturebox/2011/<wbr></wbr>08/vivat_latinitas.single.html</a><wbr></wbr>). But like the Hobbits returned from Mordor, I've been "home" now for four years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: garamond, serif; font-size: large;">The pontifical university I attended was recommended by a priest-canonist I trusted, and the price was right: as across much of Europe, graduate tuition at Rome's pontifical schools is still under a few thousand dollars a year, compared to the licentiate program at Catholic University in Washington -- the only canon law school in the United States -- which is about $40,000 this year, just for tuition alone (for the JCL; the JCD is significantly less). My only goal was to go to Rome, stay on track, and get out, preferably with <i>licenza</i> in hand. It nearly finished me, but I did it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: garamond, serif; font-size: large;">During the academic breaks in my five years of the licentiate program (two an accelerated STB cycle followed by three years of the JCL), I came back to the United States most summers to work, landing in places such as Washington, New York, and Los Angeles, and on the way to or from, the United Kingdom or the south of France. Merely to give some indication I was alive, I would post photos or articles on this blog for my friends and others. I rely more on facebook now, and it is primarily to that forum I reserve posting of my whereabouts and/or things that interest me or pertain to my work, and only for my friends (and not just so-called facebook friends, since most of the people I am connected to on fb are people I know and like in real life). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: garamond, serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes I can't believe I survived all that time in Italy, especially dangerous and dirty Rome, and could never understand why any of the (mostly Catholic) Americans or Anglophones in general I knew there wanted to hang on and try to fabricate some kind of life for themselves. The only thing I could figure out is that the ones who were most determined to stay came from dreary locations, places they wanted never to see again and were embarrassed to be from. As I discovered during my time with them, they seemed to be attempting to escape any number of things: burned bridges, suburban malaise, social isolation, academic or vocational failure, dead-end jobs, the responsibility of caring for aging or disabled parents, etc. Yes, for them, I am sure Rome appeared wonderful. They spent time mostly with other Anglophones, some of them barely learning enough Italian to order in a restaurant even after several years, frequently posting photos of themselves and their surroundings hoping to make the people back home envious, but often complaining bitterly about the locals' quirks and way of navigating through the day...perhaps unaware that many of these same flaws are actually their own.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: garamond, serif; font-size: large;">Recently I went back -- for what I hope was my last trip to Rome ever -- for a conference, Sacra Liturgia 2013 (<a href="http://sacraliturgia2013.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://sacraliturgia2013.com/</a><wbr></wbr>), and having had a series of all-too-vivid reminders of just how difficult and even toxic life was for me in such a place, I can't imagine any normal person -- unless one is Italian -- wanting to spend his or her life there. Though now to think of it, "normal" may be the (in)operative word, since most of the hangers-on are not merely slightly eccentric expats, but seem to have subclinical afflictions of the psyche and/or seemingly intractable problems of character that apparently do not allow them to live what might pass for a normal and fulfilling life in their places of origin. It's different if one goes abroad for school or business, meets a native and gets married, and so has to make a life in a new country, or if one immersed oneself in the local culture and populace to the point where they became "my people" -- but to stay on because there's nothing to go back to or hoping eventually to finagle a way into some (often Church-related) position that would be virtually impossible to attain at home seems like a poor plan for one's life and perhaps an indication of something fundamentally amiss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: garamond, serif; font-size: large;">So I think this blog has served its purpose and now I will probably let it lie fallow, or even delete it at some point. I had thought of doing so last year, but then I got involved with the organization of Sacra Liturgia 2013 and thought that some posts about it would be useful...to all of the dozen or so people who check in here regularly. People frequently access the posts about Father Stanley Jaki, as well as my few reflections on clerical continence, so I may just leave those. But now that the conference is over, I see no point in continuing to maintain this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: garamond, serif; font-size: large;">Besides, in my life there is very little to chronicle for the most part. I've not posted things that often, and I do not need to show everyone photos of myself and my friends at the Met or Boulud or having a twilight cookout on the beach. I have achieved certain goals that I set out to achieve. Actually, I think I have achieved most of the things I've wanted, with one or two exceptions, but I remain hopeful and committed to realizing those too, <i>Deo volente</i>. After a great deal of hard work, perseverance, and not always succeeding but trying to remain supple in the hands of the Almighty, I am happy with where I am in my life and work, more so than ever I thought would be possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: garamond, serif; font-size: large;">Returning to live in New York after eight years away has been a joy (five years in Rome, and a year each in San Antonio, Denver, and finally Washington for canon law doctoral studies at Catholic University). I have been warmly welcomed back by many people here. Best of all, I have been able to resume spending time with friends I had missed painfully: phone and e-mail are great, but there's nothing like time together in person. These days I think many people tend to forget that. At least I know I do.</span></div>
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I also attended a canon law conference just last week. I am very happy I went. There are more photos and some additional information <a href="http://wdtprs.com/blog/2013/08/canon-law-conference-at-o-l-guadalupe-shrine/" target="_blank">here</a> (and only on fifth or sixth glance did I realize that my boss and I are in the photo of the facade of the church -- can't recall what we were discussing, and don't know who the person is walking away from us -- but since I did not take a photo of the exterior of the church, I am glad to have this one!).</div>
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The Mississippi bending at La Crosse, Wisconsin.<br />
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La Crosse -- classic American small town.<br />
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Even there it is possible to build a new church, and to make it beautiful.<br />
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Angels by the great Anthony Visco overlook the sanctuary.<br />
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Ok, I don't understand putting statues *on* altars...<br />
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Saint Therese<br />
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Blessed Miguel Pro<br />
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Saint Gianna<br />
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Cardinal Burke was brilliant, as usual.<br />
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More of Anthony Visco's work - but again, I don't understand putting a white plastic sprinkler/fire thing right in the middle...<br />
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Kitsch but wonderful votive pyramid.<br />
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Three fighters of the good fight.<br />
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Sure it's soft focus........but by this age I thought I'd be all wrinkled up, etc.<br />
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"Spotted Cow" -- a local favorite, but I suppose it is an acquired taste.</div>
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We had a lovely dinner with Cardinal Burke and the other participants of the conference.<br />
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There were a number of people at this conference who had also gone to Sacra Liturgia 2013! It was a joy to see them again.<br />
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Looking at this, I kept hearing the "New World Symphony" in my head.<br />
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Below are some photos from the Sacra Liturgia 2013 conference in Rome, which was held at Santa Croce (my second alma mater) in June.</div>
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First of all, it is important to know that we had 14 copes delivered and then traveled with them back to France.<br />
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I got to see old friends, which was a very good thing.</div>
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Had lots of entertaining discussions over noodles each evening.<br />
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Vaguely familiar faces kept turning up at my desk to register.<br />
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These young chaps were supposed to help me...but as with so many things in Rome, appearances can be deceiving.<br />
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It was great to meet Cardinal Ranjith again after four years.<br />
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It was also great to meet Msgr. Stefan Heid at last and present to him some of the conference goodies. His book on clerical continence in the early Church has been most useful to me in my doctoral research.<br />
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There were lots of clergy in attendance -- more than 100 out of the 300 or so delegates.<br />
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All the lectures were excellent.<br />
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I don't understand the kerfuffle about Professor Rowland and her outfit (it shouldn't matter what she wore, of course -- the main point was that she gave an amazing lecture!).<br />
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It was a gift to spend time with Don Davide -- this alone was worth the trip.</div>
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Figuring out subdiaconal things.<br />
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Bishop Schneider joined us, which was unexpected but very nice.<br />
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Long before the conference was over I was already very tired.<br />
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We went for drinks at the Minerve when the conference was over.</div>
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I forgot to mention: I also met Cardinal Burke again after four years. I had been at a dinner the evening before with him and some of the other conference speakers, and had the chance to make some comments/clarifications about the tribunal on which I serve (all tribunals send a report to Cardinal Burke's office, the Apostolic Signatura, every year). O:) Hence the complicit expression.</div>
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Back at the Minerve, even more tired<br />
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We traveled back to France with the 14 copes.<br />
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Seven red copes.....and........<br />
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Seven gold copes.....which, mercifully, folded down very nicely.<br />
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Sunday morning in La Garde-Freinet............exhausted.<br />
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<a href="http://www.news.va/en/news/liturgy-in-the-new-evangelisation">http://www.news.va/en/news/liturgy-in-the-new-evangelisation</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/2202/Bishop-Dominique-Rey-Discusses-Sacra-Liturgia-2013-Conference.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/2202/Bishop-Dominique-Rey-Discusses-Sacra-Liturgia-2013-Conference.aspx</a><br />
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<a href="http://incaelo.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/before-sacra-liturgia-bishop-rey-explains-why-liturgy-matters/">http://incaelo.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/before-sacra-liturgia-bishop-rey-explains-why-liturgy-matters/</a><br />
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<a href="http://incaelo.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/sacra-liturgia-2013-why-liturgy-matters/">http://incaelo.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/sacra-liturgia-2013-why-liturgy-matters/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.chantcafe.com/2013/05/vatican-radio-interview-with-organizer.html">http://www.chantcafe.com/2013/05/vatican-radio-interview-with-organizer.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/getting-to-the-bottom-of-liturgical-reform" target="_blank"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><em>Conference convener Bishop Dominique Rey of the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, France, says the liturgy is the point of departure for the new evangelisation. The June meeting, he adds, will be held in the light of the Year of Faith and the 50th anniversary since the start of the Second Vatican Council. Around 300 participants from more than 20 countries are expected to attend “Sacra Liturgia 2013,” which will take place at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.</em><em> </em></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">We hope to give further impetus to the “new liturgical movement,” something that has spread throughout the Church in recent years and which encompasses a desire to implement the liturgical reforms called for by the Second Vatican Council more faithfully as well as an openness to the riches of the pre-conciliar liturgy. Both of these have much to give in sustaining our Christian life and mission today, and both have their rightful place in the life of the Church. At the conference we will celebrate solemn Mass and Vespers in both forms.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">These disputes are often caused by reading into the Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy later ideas or enthusiasms, of differing merit, which are simply not there. For example, Mass facing the people, having the entire liturgy in the vernacular, communion in the hand, the introduction of altar girls and of extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion are commonplace now, but have nothing to do with the Council itself. Sometimes an appeal to the “spirit” of Vatican II is made to justify these later innovations, but this ignores the authoritative nature of the Council’s texts, dissipates their integrity and relativises them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">If we are to be faithful to the Council, good, careful scholarship is necessary. Scholarship which looks at what the Council said, the context in which it was said, and how faithfully it was or was not implemented.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Then we must ask: are the policies of the Council the best ones for the beginning of the 21st century? We have seen and learnt much in the past 50 years. We need to learn from these experiences, good and bad. For example the place of the vernacular in the reading of Sacred Scripture at Mass has taken root across the world and now is even an expectation of many congregations attending the older rite. We have also learnt that the older rite, celebrated well and respecting its integrity, is highly valued by young people of this century and bears significant fruit in vocations to the priesthood and religious life. So too, generations have been raised with the newer rites, and that is a pastoral reality which must be respected.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">It is by taking all the relevant factors into account, rather than by standing behind “party lines,” that such disputes will be left behind as the unfortunate baggage of a liturgically turbulent era that they are. The Conference hopes to help move us forward in this way.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #f6b26b;">Some argue that liturgical abuses were sown in Sacrosanctum Concilium, others say they began before the Second Vatican Council constitution. What position will the conference take on this, if any?</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Individual speakers may examine particulars of <em>Sacrosanctum Concilium </em>and identify influences in its drafting or explore ways its phrases were interpreted. The organisers take no formal position on this other than asking for scholarship that is clear and sound.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">I would add personally that a lot of work needs to be done in studying this issue. There was good and bad practice before and after the Council, and there were also key individuals seeking to influence official liturgical reform at both times. Scholarship is needed to assist us in identifying these clearly so that the Church of the future may see whether elements of liturgical tradition were unduly jettisoned and also whether some later developments might be of value to the older rites.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">The Conference was certainly inspired by the liturgical vision and teaching of Pope Benedict XVI and by the Year of Faith inaugurated by him. He could rightly be called the father of the new liturgical movement to which we hope to make a contribution. We were all delighted when Bishop Rey received Pope Benedict’s “strong encouragement” for the initiative after informing him about it during his <em>ad limina </em>visit last December. Pope Benedict’s resignation left us sad, of course, but it is something that we must accept and respect.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">According to God’s Providence different popes address different issues in the life of the Church—and rightly. Pope Francis will, no doubt, be considering what his emphases are to be. In respect of the sacred liturgy much of the fundamental work has been done by his predecessor. The Holy Father does not need to write another <em>Sacramentum Caritatis</em> or <em>Summorum Pontificum</em>. These are already in place and a change of pope does not detract from their magisterial or legal status, just as the teaching and acts of Blessed John Paul II did not lose their import with the election of a new pope in 2005. Pope Francis is in a good position to build on his predecessor’s acts in this area if he wishes. And in many ways, because of the work of his predecessor, he is freer to concentrate on other important aspects of the Church’s life.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Certainly, <em>Sacra Liturgia 2013 </em>will draw richly on the example and teaching of Pope Benedict XVI and will in some ways be a fitting tribute to him and a testament to the ongoing value of his liturgical teaching and example, but not in a way that sets one pope against another. The Conference is in Rome in order to be close to Peter, with whom we hope to be present at the Mass of Saint’s Peter and Paul on June 29th.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #f6b26b;">What sort of people will be present at <em>Sacra Liturgia 2013</em>? Is it still possible to register for a place?</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Registrations are coming in all the time, but yes, there are full and part-time places available. We have delegates from approximately 25 countries around the world (and will, of course, have simultaneous translation available). Bishops, priests, deacons, seminarians, lay men and women and religious are registering from around the world. Some delegates are responsible for teaching liturgy or for sacred music in their dioceses or parishes, others are interested in the issues personally or academically. Some are using the opportunity as a week of liturgical formation. Some simply wish to hear the internationally renowned speakers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">No doubt many new connections will be made between those present and friendships will be formed in June. In this, <em>Sacra Liturgia 2013 </em>will be something of a catalyst for authentic liturgical renewal in the 21st century.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Full details about the conference and how to register can be found here: <a href="http://sacraliturgia2013.com/" style="color: rgba(172, 106, 15, 0.933333); text-decoration: none;">http://sacraliturgia2013.com/</a></span></div>
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Two Popes.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125973269129207579.post-74855027240187699642013-03-16T10:41:00.000-07:002013-07-20T10:08:34.761-07:00The poor vs. beauty in worship?<br />
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<a href="http://ubispiritus.blogspot.it/2013/03/what-it-means-to-serve-poor.html" target="_blank">Before coming to Rome, I was assigned for three years at our parish of St. Thomas Aquinas in Zanesville, OH. The parish is a part of the Diocese of Columbus. While in the Diocese, I learned of one of the great ministries of outreach to the poor, the soup kitchen at Holy Family parish. The church, and the soup kitchen and pantry, are located in one of the poorest neighborhoods of the city. The soup kitchen serves 700 hot meals every day, Monday through Saturday. The pantry serves, on average, 250 families every week with food assistance. The parish stands out in the Diocese for its dedication to serving the poor in its own neighborhood.</a></div>
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<a href="http://ubispiritus.blogspot.it/2013/03/what-it-means-to-serve-poor.html" target="_blank">The parish stands out in another way. It is home to the extraordinary form of the Mass, celebrated there every week. Just as the soup kitchen served those who hunger for food to keep them alive, so the Mass, in its traditional form, serves those who hunger for the rich splendor of the traditions of the Catholic Church.</a></div>
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<a href="http://ubispiritus.blogspot.it/2013/03/what-it-means-to-serve-poor.html" target="_blank">In these days following the election of Pope Francis, there have been some (not the new Holy Father himself, of course) who have tried to create a wedge between the Church's call to serve the physical needs of the poor and her call to serve their spiritual needs. To those who believe that a commitment to the poor is contrary to a commitment to spendor in the worship of God, I think Holy Family Church parish in Columbus remains a shining counter-example.</a></div>
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<a href="http://ubispiritus.blogspot.it/2013/03/what-it-means-to-serve-poor.html" target="_blank">The first duty of the Church is to preach the good news, to be the instrument of salvation, the sacrament of the encounter with Jesus Christ. That means her first duty is to present the splendor of salvation present through the ancient symbols of her liturgy. It should be done, as the Second Vatican Council reminded us, with a degree of noble simplicity. Noble because its very essence touches the most exalted. Simple so that our ostentation does not obscure the true beauty of God himself.</a></div>
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<a href="http://ubispiritus.blogspot.it/2013/03/what-it-means-to-serve-poor.html" target="_blank">In this we look to the saints. St. John Vianney, the Cure of Ars, was known as a diligent priest who gave everything he was in service to his people--in preaching, in teaching, and especially in hearing confessions. He was also an example of a priest who, though never taking a religious vow of poverty himself, lived a life of poverty. It is said that he would allow his own priestly clothes--his black cassock--to fall almost to tatters. Why? So that he might better provide for the beauty of the liturgy. St. John Vianney believed in a radical detachment from wealth in the world, especially wealth for its own sake or merely personal comfort. In so doing, that radical detachment from worldly riches opened him up to a finer appreciation for the riches of God. The things of this world are meant to sustain man, but to give glory to God.</a></div>
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<a href="http://ubispiritus.blogspot.it/2013/03/what-it-means-to-serve-poor.html" target="_blank">To set our duty to serve the material needs of the poor against the splendor of divine worship is nothing less than an attempt to split Christ in two. We believe in the one person of Christ, the perfect union of a human and a divine nature. In its service to the poor, the Church must serve the whole man, body and soul.</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125973269129207579.post-84899946403217064942013-03-14T16:29:00.001-07:002013-03-14T16:30:02.755-07:00The Shoes of the Fisherman<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ngN2y6i_SOc" width="500"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125973269129207579.post-51500981089540828342013-03-09T05:15:00.001-08:002013-03-09T05:15:08.611-08:00"Rome correspondents" ~ wrong again...<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Even in one short article, BBC's "Rome correspondent" gets it wrong, as have so many others when reporting about the Vatican and the papacy.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">No. It took just over 24 hours. The Cardinals entered the conclave on Monday afternoon, April 18th, 2005, and elected Benedict XVI on Tuesday afternoon, April 19th, 2005:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">And being 85 years of age is not a disease.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125973269129207579.post-49018362612135603372013-02-11T10:58:00.001-08:002013-02-11T10:58:43.845-08:00Oremus pro pontifice nostro Benedicto<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125973269129207579.post-11296655820960574512013-01-06T17:13:00.000-08:002013-01-06T17:13:46.590-08:00Noveritis 2013<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="320" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/RasgoPlxhW4?feature=player_detailpage" width="540"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125973269129207579.post-1979414963773303052012-11-12T12:28:00.002-08:002012-11-12T12:30:07.174-08:00I'm in love with an 85-year old man who wears white...<br />
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Presenting himself as “an elderly man visiting his peers”, Pope Benedict XVI visited a Rome residence for the elderly today, urging the residents to see their age as a sign of God’s blessing and urging society to value their presence and wisdom.</div>
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“Though I know the difficulties that come with being our age, I want to say, it’s wonderful being old,” the 85-year-old Pope said during a morning visit to the residence run by the lay Community of Sant’Egidio.</div>
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The residence includes apartments for independent living as well as rooms for those requiring more skilled care. Younger members of the Sant’Egidio Community give their time assisting with and visiting the residents, who include an elderly couple from Haiti whose home was destroyed in the 2010 earthquake.</div>
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Walking with his white-handled black cane, the Pope visited several of the residents in their rooms and apartments before addressing them and members of Sant’Egidio in the garden.</div>
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One of the residents, 91-year-old Enrichetta Vitali, told the Pope: “I don’t eat so much anymore, but prayer is my nourishment.” She asked the Pope to “pray that I don’t lose my memory so I can keep remembering people in my prayers”.</div>
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The Pope told those gathered at the residence on the Janiculum Hill that in the Bible a long life is considered a blessing from God, but often today society, which is “dominated by the logic of efficiency and profit, doesn’t welcome it as such”.</div>
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“I think we need a greater commitment, beginning with families and public institutions, to ensure the elderly can stay in their homes” and that they can pass on their wisdom to younger generations.</div>
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“The quality of a society or civilisation can be judged by how it treats the elderly,” he said.</div>
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Pope Benedict also insisted on recognition of the dignity and value of all human life, even when “it becomes fragile in the years of old age”.</div>
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“One who makes room for the elderly, makes room for life,” the pope said. “One who welcomes the elderly, welcomes life.”</div>
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The Pope told the residents that he knows the aged face difficulties, especially in countries where the global economic crisis has hit hard. And, he said, the elderly can be tempted to long for the past when they had more energy and were full of plans for the future.</div>
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However, the Pope said, “life is wonderful even at our age, despite the aches and pains and some limitations”, he said.</div>
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“At our age, we often have the experience of needing other’s help, and this happens to the Pope as well,” he told the residents.</div>
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Pope Benedict said they need to see the help they require as a gift of God, “because it is a grace to be supported and accompanied and to feel the affection of others”.<br />
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<b><i><u>THANK YOU, HOLY FATHER, FOR THESE WORDS! O:)</u></i></b></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125973269129207579.post-38753791034775051932012-11-11T06:33:00.005-08:002012-11-11T06:34:41.632-08:00More on sacred musicFrom Fr. Z., worth reposting in its entirety (and check out the rest of his post and the comments here: <a href="http://wdtprs.com/blog/2012/11/pope-benedict-speaking-on-liturgical-music-and-the-new-evangelization-emphasizes-gregorian-chant-polyphony-listening">http://wdtprs.com/blog/2012/11/pope-benedict-speaking-on-liturgical-music-and-the-new-evangelization-emphasizes-gregorian-chant-polyphony-listening</a>/):<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">'The second aspect that I propose for your reflection is the relationship between sacred song and the new evangelization. The Conciliar Constitution on the liturgy calls to mind the importance of sacred music in the mission ad gentes and urges an appreciation of the musical traditions of peoples (cf 119). But also in countries of ancient evangelization, as is Italy, sacred music can have, and in fact does have, a relevant task, to foster the rediscovery of God, a renewed approach to the Christian message and to the mysteries of the Faith. Let us think about the famous experience of Paul Claudel, who converted while listening to the singing of the Magnificat during Vespers of Christmas in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris: “In that moment”, he wrote, “an event happened that dominates my whole life. In an instant my heart was touched and I believed. I believed with a force of adhesion so great, with such a lifting of all my being, with a conviction so powerful, in a certainty that would not leave room for any kind of doubt that, from that point onward, no reasoning, no circumstance of my agitated life could either shake my faith or touch it.” But, without bothering with illustrious people, let’s think about how many people have been touched in the depth of their soul listening to sacred music; and even more how many felt themselves attracted anew towards God by the beauty of liturgical music as was Claudel. [NB] And here, dear friends, you have an important role: commit yourselves to improve the quality of liturgical singing, without fearing to recover and to make use of the great musical tradition of the Church, which in Gregorian (chant) and in polyphony have two of the highest expressions, as the same Vatican II affirms (cf Sacrosanctum Concilium 116). And I would like to underscore that active participation of the whole People of God in the liturgy does not consist only in speaking, but also in listening, in receiving the Word with the senses and with the spirit, and this goes also for liturgical music. [This is my constant point of "active receptivity".] You, who have the gift of singing, can make the hearts of so many people sing in liturgical celebrations.'</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125973269129207579.post-41956677323552993912012-09-14T17:39:00.000-07:002012-09-18T11:08:11.857-07:00Pontifical Universities<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125973269129207579.post-65276905091005581402012-08-24T17:03:00.002-07:002012-08-24T17:03:39.534-07:00The splendid Fr. Mullady <iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Wrcdxj6Hx8s" width="420"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6125973269129207579.post-61659797973688359212012-07-14T08:11:00.002-07:002012-07-14T08:21:33.122-07:00One of 842 priests ordained the same day<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZHRB8gRF1Ow" width="420"></iframe><br />
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The founder of the Oasis de Jesús Sacerdote, Padre Pedro de I. Muñoz Iranzo.<br />
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For more on the 1952 Eucharistic Congress in Barcelona and the largest ordination in history:<br />
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