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<> LMAO You really do think that Canon Law trumps the authority of the Supreme Pontiff. LAMO. THat is ANOTHER heresy. Please read Vatican One. (I am assuming you DO accept that Ecuemnical Council).And you have the audacity to intimate others are lacking in knwoledge or are "in over their heads."<>

<> LMAO You really do think that Canon Law trumps the authority of the Supreme Pontiff. LAMO. THat is ANOTHER heresy.

Foiled again: some folks a bit more distinguished than you disagree:

VENERABLE POPE PIUS IX (1846-1878)

"I am only the pope. What power have I to touch the Canon?"
In response to requests that he add the name of St. Joseph to the Canon of the Mass.

And while we're at it, let's have a look at the dogmatic Council of Vatican I:

"Neque enim Petri successoribus Spiritus sanctus promissus est, ut eo revelante novam doctrinam patefacerent, sed ut eo assistente traditam per apostolos revelationem seu fidei depositum sancte custodirent et fideliter exponerent. (Constitutio Dogmatica Prima de Ecclesia Christi [Pastor Aeternus], cap. 4, "De Romani Pontificis Infallibili Magisterio")

[For the Holy Spirit was promised to the successors of Peter not so that they might, by His revelation, make known some new doctrine, but that, by His assistance, they might religiously guard and faithfully expound the revelation or Deposit of Faith transmitted by the Apostles.

And how about the great pope of the 20th century:

POPE PIUS XII (1939-1958)

"The sacred pastors are not the inventors and composers of the Gospel, but merely the authorized guardians and preachers divinely established. Wherefore, we ourselves, and all bishops with us, can and must repat the words of Jesus Christ: "My teaching is not my own, but his who sent me" (John 7:16)....

"Therefore, we are not teachers of a doctrine born of the human mind, but we are in conscience bound to embrace and follow the doctrine which Christ Our Lord taught and which He solemnly commanded His Apostles and their successors to teach (Matthew 28:19-20)." (Encyclical Letter "Ad Sinarum Gentem," October 7, 1954)

He who laughs last...

As I say, you're intellectually challenged. Canon Law IS the law of the Supreme Pontiff. Did you think it existed on its own? It is the Pope speaking canonically. Not only this, but it trumps any of his pontifical letters which would lack the same sort of official status.