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To: Unam Sanctam

Fatima ping.

Have the scales fallen from your eyes yet?


29 posted on 06/30/2004 8:05:19 AM PDT by Land of the Irish
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To: Land of the Irish

I'm trying to find the applicable rules about ceremonies of other religions in Catholic sacred spaces. It seems to me personally that the shrine authorities went too far in this case. Canon law has the following provisions, although they are somewhat vague:

Can. 1210 In a sacred place only those things are to be permitted which serve to exercise or promote worship, piety and religion. Anything out of harmony with the holiness of the place is forbidden. The Ordinary may however, for individual cases, permit other uses, provided they are not contrary to the sacred character of the place.

Can. 1211 Sacred places are desecrated by acts done in them which are gravely injurious and give scandal to the faithful when, in the judgement of the local Ordinary, these acts are so serious and so contrary to the sacred character of the place that worship may not be held there until the harm is repaired by means of the penitential rite which is prescribed in the liturgical books.


67 posted on 06/30/2004 1:20:45 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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