Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

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John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter discusses the promotion of H.E. Archbishop Raymond Burke to Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura . Mr. Allen writes a very complimentary story that makes great sense in light of the Archbishop's high profile in the U.S. episcopal scene, his reputation as a canonist, and his familiarity with Rome. Thanks to AmericanPapist for spotting this great story !

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Dr. Edward N. Peters of In the Light of the Law puts forth the proposal that those who commit euthanasia should be excommunicated . For some months I have been researching and writing an article on euthanasia in canon law. I hoped against hope that it might remain an academic exercise, but (to judge from, say, this report on the practice of euthanasia in Belgium ) the speed with which the Western, specifically Christian, protection of innocent life is collapsing suggests that one of my projected canonical recommendations deserves an earlier hearing than appearance in a peer-reviewed journal can afford. Simply put, I recommend that euthanasia be made an excommunicable offense under the 1983 Code of Canon Law . I hope his proposal is given serious consideration in light of his arguments .

Carl Olson in Insight Scoop is reporting that Archbishop Raymond Burke has declared the excommunications of would-be priestesses Rose Hudson and Elsie McGrath, and also of pretend-bishop Patricia Fresen. This decree...declares as follows : 1) that McGrath, Hudson and Fresen have incurred the censure of excommunication latae sententiae for the crime of schism (cann. 1331, 1364 s. 1); 2) that upon McGrath, Hudson and Fresen is imposed the ferendae sententiae censure of interdict for the crime of pertinacious rejection of a truth of the faith after admonition by the Ordinary (can. 1371, para. 1); and, 3) that upon Fresen is imposed the ferendae sententiae censure of excommunication for the crime of simulation of the sacrament of Holy Orders (can. 1379). Read the entire story here .

Edward N. Peters, JD, JCD , has a marvelous blog called " In the Light of the Law " that deals with issues of Canon Law. It seems that in Dr. Peters' view, National Catholic Reporter correspondent, Joe Feuerherd , has gotten himself into "big" trouble with some published comments. Read the story and reasons why here ....

Insight Scoop has a fascinating take on the showdown between basketball coach, Rick Majerus, the Jesuits and the Archbishop of Saint Louis, Archbishop Burke centering on Saint Louis University. Here is just a snip taken from the American Spectator and posted on Insight Scoop : George Neumayr, editor of Catholic World Report , writes this in a special report (Jan. 28, 2008) for American Spectator : In 2003, Jesuit St. Louis University (SLU) received an $8 million tax abatement to start building a sports arena. This annoyed the Masonic Temple Association, whose property abuts SLU. Arguing that a religious school should not receive government monies, the Association filed a federal lawsuit to block the abatement. The case was ultimately dismissed, but not before exposing the utter shamelessness of Jesuit officials at the schools. To fend off the suit, they told a Missouri appellate court that SLU is "independent of the Catholic Chu

You probably have heard the story on the news by now: an orthodox Archbishop has publicly questioned a Division I basketball coach at a Roman Catholic University within his Archdiocese about the coach's pro-abortion comments while the coach protests all the while to be "Catholic." What are to we make of this as the talking heads on ESPN and other outlets tell the good Archbishop to "mind his own business?" Fortunately, a superb canonist , Edward N. Peters, writes a blog on Canon Law called, In Light of the Law, and he has weighed in on the case : I'm not making this up. Jesuit-run St. Louis University's basketball coach Rick Majerus (yes, a basketball coach) is telling St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke (yes, the canonist archbishop ), to mind his own business regarding Majerus ' outspoken support for (get ready for it) abortion and experimentation on embryonic humans ! If it weren't that expressing support for such deeply offensive conduct i

The Summorum Pontificum blog has a link to a fascinating article posted on the blog Catholic Church Conservation . A portion of the post is cited here: A prerequisite for the request for the old Mass is the existence of a "fixed group of believers." The German Bishops are attempting to use this point against the Motu proprio 'Summorum Pontificum'. The latest edition of the German theological journal 'Una Voce Correspondence' has published an article with the title "A Canonical Note on " Summorum Pontificum "and its practical implementation". The author is the Right Revd. Father Wolfgang Rothe, Canon Lawyer and former Subregens of the Seminary of St. Pölten. The paper deals with the question of how big a group of believers must be to request the old Mass, or whether such a group needs to be of a particular size. Father Rothe also raises the problem, as to what is to be understood by the phrase "enduring existance" of this grou