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To: Sun

Bishop Lynch was absent for Holy Week & Easter from his Diocese which is in violation of canon law 395. Lynch was visiting Sumatra during Holy Week.

Can. 395 §1. Even if a diocesan bishop has a coadjutor or auxiliary, he is bound by the law of personal residence in the diocese.

§2. Apart from ad limina visits, councils, synods of bishops, conferences of bishops which he must attend, or some other duty legitimately entrusted to him, he can be absent from his diocese for a reasonable cause but not beyond a month, whether continuous or interrupted, and provided that he makes provision so that the diocese will suffer no detriment from his absence.

§3. He is not to be absent from the diocese on Christmas, during Holy Week, and on Easter, Pentecost, and the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, except for a grave and urgent cause.

Code of Cannon Law:
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P1E.HTM

Bishop Lynch in Sumatra:
http://www.thefloridacatholic.org/articles/050401/050401-stp-lynch-earthquake.htm


757 posted on 04/10/2005 8:57:25 AM PDT by amdgmary (Please visit www.terrisfight.org and www.theempirejournal.com)
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To: amdgmary

Some people are religious. Some people are Christians -- there's a huge difference. Lynch and others like him are EXACTLY like the religious Pharisees that Jesus called snakes and vipers.


854 posted on 04/11/2005 7:13:13 AM PDT by freepertoo
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