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Sunday, January 21, 2018 - 22:45
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Connor McNeill said...

There is a rather pleasing scene at the end of Fr. Rolfe’s (Baron Corvo’s, etc. whatever you want call him) novel Don Tarquinio where Pope Alexander VI marries a couple on the terrace of the Castle Sant Angelo, all rather spontaneously in front of a crowd of courtiers.

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Donald Lock said...

This is the same Pope Francis who declared that most marriages are invalid, because the parties do not understand the sacrament of Holy Matrimony, owing to lack of proper pastoral counseling, and he marries two people he met on the plane?

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cogito said...

All part of the plan to trivialize the sacrament of matrimony...Amoris Laetitia in action

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GOR said...

Once again PF shows his disdain for orthodox and prudent procedure (Pharisaic, I expect he’d call it), but his precipitous (apparently) and poorly thought-out action will open a Pandora’s box for pastors.

And in Pharisaic fashion some of the faithful will declare: “What need have we of witnesses, or procedure, or paperwork…? Just get on with it!”

Thank you Pope Francis, for sowing further confusion and discord!

Deacon Augustine said...

Well one good use for FB is that it quickly unearths the lie that this travesty of a "marriage" was in any way "spontaneous". It was just another photo-op - fake news that had been planned at least a month ago:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2051641361738038&set=p.205164136...

What does that tell us about a man who would take part in such a deception?

Henry Luxembourg said...

It makes it worse that they had at least a month in which to put everything in order, but didn’t bother.

The following article in Spanish was published last December and describes the forthcoming wedding of the couple on the plane:
http://www.emol.com/noticias/Nacional/2017/12/19/888055/Con-emocion-y-ne...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Own comment: 

So we learn that something which the Vatican media claimed was spontaneous was in fact planned. Who is honestly surprised that the Vatican media was lying in an attempt to keep up the Bergoglio show?

The piece by Fr. Hunwicke is important in this debate, and the most important part is:

On the other hand, canonists have been uneasy about the "wedding" in the airliner. It all interests me because twice recently, 2 January and 14 January, I have vigorously argued against the apparent belief of some superhyperueberpapalists, that the Roman Pontiff, just because he makes and dispenses from laws, is himself above the Law.

And if it were to be asserted that "By doing X, PF tacitly dispensed himself from the law(s) against X", I would regard the implications of that approach as thoroughly disturbing ... almost like the Nazi notion that the Fuehrer's will is the Supreme Law. The whole business would suggest the ugly idea that "I'm the Pope and so I can do anything".

Indeed he is and indeed he can't.

I had the same debate myself, although in my case it was on account of the papal marriage attempt.

Of course the pope is not above Church law. If he was, it would seem to turn everything that Christ said regarding servitude upside down. We were told explicitly that amongst Christians honour is given so that it can be used to serve, not so that it can be used to bludgeon subordinates. If the pope is indeed above the law, then it would seem that whatever authority he has is different from the one which was instituted by Christ Himself.

Furthermore, the notion that the pope's power is unlimited is definitely not traditional since traditionally, the sphere in which the pope was seen to legitimately act was quite small and definitely did not include contravening Church law. That the pope has authority we know from Tradition, and that there are limits to his power we also know from Tradition.

Any attempt to maximise his power at the expense of the traditional limitations therefore leads us into a situation in which the tradition of papal authority is being used to undermine the purpose for which the papal office was founded, a notion which is patently absurd.