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  • [Catholic Caucus] Traditionis custodes and “reception theory” – or – When a law is no law at all.

    07/29/2021 9:56:56 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 1 replies
    Fr. Z's Blog ^ | July 29, 2021 | Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
    [Catholic Caucus] Traditionis custodes and "reception theory" - or - When a law is no law at all.Have you ever heard of “reception theory”?Reception theory states that a law, in order to be a law, a binding law, must be received by the community for which it is intended. If they community does not receive it, that is, they reject it outright or it fails to have any effect on how they live, the presumed law is non-binding and is really no law at all.This doesn’t apply to moral law, because it flows from above reception or rejection by mere...