“It’s never been done before so it shouldn’t ever be done[?]”
You’re quite right. The Good Father Johansen couldn’t make a decent a decent argument if his life depended on it.
But it’s much, much worse than you feared. If you track down his reference to “CIC 377, 401–402” you’ll find he can’t read either.
Heh. The Pope can’t write. Must be something in the water.
To what exactly are you referring? Do you mean the 1983 Code of Canon Law? John Paul II?