Posted on 10/08/2008 10:52:19 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
One of his greatest failings was in not dismissing McBrien from the clerical state.
Thanks for the explaination. I agree with the mandatum being revoked then I guesss. This guy is preaching the social politics of marx.
McBrien is a diocesan priest from Connecticut. He only gets attention because he’s a heretic. Two sets of people seem to pay attention to him, anti-Catholics and Catholics who want Notre Dame to be more like a seminary.
Granted he is a blemish on anybodies faculty but every university has it’s tenured crackpots.
Unless I’m severely mistaken McBrien doesn’t need a mandatum (they come from the Bishop not Rome) because he doesn’t teach in the fields designated as theological disciplines.
Mansell needs to bring McBrien home and begin the process of having him dismissed.
McBrien needs to go. He's caused a lot of damage. Bottom line.
The USCCB Guidelines Concerning the Academic Mandatum say this.
1. Nature of the mandatum.
a. The mandatum is fundamentally an acknowledgment by Church authority that a Catholic professor of a theological discipline is a teacher within the full communion of the Catholic Church ( Application: Article 4,4,e,i).
2. Who is required to have the mandatum?
a. All Catholics who teach theological disciplines in a Catholic university are required to have a mandatum. (canon 812 and Application: Article 4, 4, e).
c. “Theological disciplines” in this context signifies Sacred Scripture, dogmatic theology, moral theology, pastoral theology, canon law, liturgy, and Church history (cf. canon 252)
“Theological disciplines” seems to have the same definition as “theological subjects” mentioned in Canon 812.
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