Canon law

Like mortal sin, excommunication is a total rift with God himself that occurs prior to the bishop recognizing it as such.

Now, under the current code of canon law, there are two types of excommunication.

Latte sententiae, which takes place automatically upon the commission of a particular crime, and ferende sententiae, which is imposed after the bishop has warned a person, but that person keeps offending anyway.

Verende sententiae excommunication requires a long formal process, but in the end, it all comes down to this.

To the average lay reader, paragraph 2272 of the Catechism seems pretty clear.

The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to abortion.

"...a person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latte sententiae by the very commission of the offense..." and subject to the conditions of canon law so the logic goes when a catholic politician promotes or signs a law that creates the conditions for more abortions more deaths he or she makes herself an accomplice in procuring more abortions haven't they excommunicated themselves And the next logical conclusion is why aren't bishops declaring more Latte Sententiae excommunications or even formal excommunications? It's because excommunication is actually a really technical canonical penalty.

Canon law requires bishops to make a very narrow reading of that word accomplices.

deeply shaped by the educational and political legacy of the Jesuit order, which had dominated higher learning, and then suddenly thrust into a vacuum in which the Jesuits were suppressed by Pope Clement and allowed these new revolutionary enlightenment ideas to sort of step into the forefront.

And that's how Adam Weishaupt became professor of, what was it, dogmas? He became Professor Cannon Law.

It was of Cannon Law.

That's what it was.

So born February 6th, 1748, dies November 1830.

All international banking is based on contract.

Consequently, all international banking law is based on Vatican canon law.

Vatican canon law is the basis for international banking law all over the earth.

Now, how many people know that? And once you understand how the uniform commercial code that runs the banks, also they bought you.

And that's the whole story, how you were born, how you were bought.

And he now reigneth, I doubt not, as a blessed martyr in the joys of heaven, prepared for the faithful in Christ before the foundations of the world, for whose constancy all Christians are bound to praise God.

The Life and Conduct of Dr. Rowland Taylor of Hadley Dr. Rowland Taylor, Vicar of Hadleigh in Suffolk, was a man of eminent learning, and had been admitted to the degree of Doctor of the Civil and Canon Law.

His attachment to the pure and uncorrupted principles of Christianity recommended him to the favour and friendship of Dr. Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, with whom he lived a considerable time, until through his interest he obtained the living at Hadleigh.

Not only was his word a preaching unto them, but all his life and conversation was an example of unfeigned Christian life and true holiness.

I mean, I think they look at all of these circumstances to start saying, like, you know, you get into a certain part in the book where you actually list the reasons.

And I think it's, you have the canon law, but then you have like, well, in civil law, you have statutes, but then you have like regulations, which are not law, but they give examples of how the law is to be applied.

And I think you gave some examples of you know, kind of regulations or commentaries on the code that give examples of whether or not you were in the right state of mind.

I'm trying to remember what some of those examples were, but it was shockingly foolish, in my opinion.

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This is from Beal's new commentary on the code of canon law.

And it says a person may possess sufficient use of reason to have a rudimentary and abstract understanding of marriage and its obligations, but still be incapable of consent if he or she lacks the ability to deliberate critically about the choice and the concrete.

Not today.

Canon Law says you have to hear my confession.

Canon Law isn't everything.

That surprised me.

Jordan was not a rule breaker.

Now, that is where legitimate criticism of papal statements can go into set of a cantism.

set of accountism and i'm going to talk more about that but let's have brother mark show the next slide this is canon 194 but father it says in canon law that if a pope is here heretical he forfeits his papacy if a pope speaks heretical he's no longer the pope is that true Let's look at Canon 194, paragraph one, section two.

There on your screen.

That does say that a person is removed from an ecclesiastical office, ipso iure, if he has, quote, publicly defected from the Catholic faith or from the communion of the church.

We don't hear a lot of that.

Canon 1404, the Pope is judged by no one.

The question is not merely whether a Pope could commit heresy, but who has the authority to judge him? Canon law says nobody.

Who could authoritatively establish that the Pope's words were formal, manifest, and obstinate heresy, and that the sea of Peter has consequently become vacant, given that Canon 1404 says no one judges the first sea? Ooh.

In particular, any matter which concerned the church in any way could be brought before the pope by an appeal for his decision.

Strictly speaking, his jurisdiction was confined to spiritual matters under what is known as the Canon Law, but the temporal powers of the church were so large that the distinction between spiritual and temporal things was difficult, and the church claimed the right to define it.

Thus all questions arising from marriage and inheritance became subject to the spiritual courts of the bishops, and from these appeals could be carried to the Holy See.

As the pope also enjoyed original jurisdiction, it can readily be seen how immense was the business flowing into Rome, how large were the revenues thence accruing, and how directly the papal authority was brought to bear upon the people even to the most remote sections of Europe.

Using the feudal idea that a king held his kingdom as a fief from God, they proclaimed that the pope, as the representative of God, could bestow or take away any kingdom.

Some kings were willing, some were forced to admit this theory.

King John of England Peter II of Aragon Sancho I of Portugal And other monarchs acknowledged themselves to be vassals of the Pope At times during the 13th century it seemed as if the latter might become the suzerain of almost all the kings of Europe In order to regulate the conduct of its members the Church was obliged to maintain an ecclesiastical court in every diocese in addition to the feudal courts in which the bishop's delegates administered feudal law In the ecclesiastical courts were tried all suits in which one or both of the parties were members of the clergy As such they had the right to be tried only by these courts This was granted as a privilege to all who had taken a vow to go on a crusade and to students at the universities Besides having jurisdiction over certain persons the ecclesiastical courts tried certain classes of crime All matters relative to the Christian faith the Church sacraments or vows which had been taken All crimes committed in holy places All violations of the truths of God Or of laws enacted by the Church Either were or might be brought into these courts For this reason heresy questions relating to marriage and divorce For marriage was a sacrament All transactions which had been accompanied by an oath And many other classes of cases Were tried by the bishops officials In fact there were comparatively few cases Which could not be brought within the competence Of an ecclesiastical court By a liberal interpretation of its jurisdiction For example the Church had prohibited The payment of interest when money was borrowed Consequently any business transaction involving A loan might be brought before this court Frequently a case might With equal right be tried either in the royal Or baronial court or in the ecclesiastical Court for a matter of strictly Secular business might have been ratified By an oath It was to the Interest of the king and the barons That all such cases should Be tried in their civil courts Because the judicial fines and payments Constituted a considerable part Of their income frequently One or both of the litigants Preferred to carry the case Before the bishop's court Partly because the law Was thought to be administered More intelligently partly because the Ecclesiastical penalties for Many crimes were less severe In the civil Courts death and Mutilation of limbs were common Punishments the ecclesiastical Courts were forbidden To inflict any penalty Which would cause the shedding of blood Up to the middle of the twelfth Century there had been little Or no conflict between the two kinds Of courts which had often Been of mutual aid From that time however the lay Powers became jealous of what They considered encroachments On their rights the great Conflict in england Between henry ii and thomas Becket was due mainly To this cause the Law administered in the ecclesiastical Courts was the canon law Or the law of the church Its chief sources were custom Or unwritten law the Holy scriptures the writings Of the church fathers the Canons passed by church councils And the decretals of the Popes about the Middle of the Twelfth century all the existing Laws were codified by gratian In the decretum the work Was so well done and So convenient that although It had at first no official Sanction it soon Became recognized as the authoritative Collection of the Canon law new laws Were being made constantly By papal decretals to Meet new cases From time to time, collections of these were made and added to the Decretum to form the corpus or body of canon law.

End of section 18 Section 19 of A History of the Middle Ages by Dana Carlton Monroe This LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by Pamela Nagami Chapter 16 The Church in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries Part Two The great increase in power was not obtained without opposition.