Pope Research Articles

Secular Chains: Poetry and the Politics of Religion from Milton to Pope, by Philip Connell

Secular Chains: Poetry and the Politics of Religion from Milton to Pope, by Philip Connell

“Si appellatio mere dilatoria evidenter appareat”: alcune note a margine dei cann. 1680, § 2, e 1687, § 4, C.i.c. post Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus

SOMMARIO: 1. Il background di una riforma “missionaria” - 2. Insidie ermeneutiche della clausola - 3. Esegesi soggettive e oggettive: limiti applicativi - 4. Una versione mediata: la valutazione sull’appello come indagine de merito causae - 5. L’applicazione della clausola al processo ordinario … - 6. … e al processus brevior - 7. Considerazioni conclusive . “Si appellatio mere dilatoria evidenter appareat”: some considerations on the sidelines of cann. 1682, § 2 and 1687, § 4 C.i.c. after the motu proprio Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus ABSTRACT: The paper aims to analyze the problems underlying the clause that states “ si appellatio mere dilatoria evidenter apparea t”, introduced with the Motu proprio “ Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus ” with whom Pope Francis has reformed the processes of marriage nullity in 2015. Beyond the mere terminologic matter, which has also committed the doctrine, given the imperfect clarity of the terms of which the clause is composed, what is at stake is the right of appeal granted to the losing party following a decision “ pro nullitate matrimonii ”. Legislative innovation must be lowered whithin a broader field of reform, where it’s called to interface with the background of ordinary process and of the new processus br evior, that has the primary goal to chase after the speed-up of processes. The risk of subjectivism in which the judges could fall, focusing on the mere intentions of the appellant subject or on the simple reasons given, and not giving rise to a complete judgment where to reach moral certainty, should be avoided in order to safeguard the aspiration of justice that canon law can not not have, and that precise connotations in terms of faith have only to contribute increasing.

Terminy procesowe w kontekście reformy kanonów dotyczących spraw o orzeczenie nieważności małżeństwa dokonanej przez papieża Franciszka

Reforma procesowa papieża Franciszka z 2015 roku związana jest z uproszczeniem oraz skróceniem kanonicznego orzekania o nieważności małżeństwa przez sądy Kościoła. Naturalnie taki stan rzeczy nie oznacza, że wspomniana reforma zapomina o istotnym przymiocie małżeństwa: to jest o jego nierozerwalności; wręcz przeciwnie, każdy biskup diecezjalny winien w swoim pasterskim sprawowaniu władzy sądowniczej zagwarantować, że nie dojdzie w tej delikatnej materii do jakiejkolwiek formy laksyzmu.Aktualne przyspieszenie orzekania nieważności małżeństwa nie może zatem zagubić prawdy na temat zaskarżonego małżeństwa. Każdy bowiem wyrok sędziego kościelnego musi opierać się na pewności moralnej, która jest fundamentem każdego sprawiedliwego wyroku, jak to było i jest podkreślane w magisterium biskupów rzymskich.Analizowany fragment współczesnej reformy procesowego prawa kanonicznego jasno uświadamia, że terminy w procesie dotyczącym orzeczenia nieważności małżeństwa winny być starannie oraz wiernie przestrzegane, być może konieczna będzie tutaj w niektórych wypadkach także zmiana mentalności w przedmiocie aplikowania prawa procesowego, dlatego też warto przywołać znany aforyzm, który poucza, że „sprawiedliwość opóźniona staje się sprawiedliwością zanegowaną” (Monteskiusz).Reforma procesowa papieża Franciszka, mimo że została wprowadzona z motywów duszpasterskich, przyczyniła się jednak zdecydowanie do uproszczenia oraz skrócenia kanonicznego procesu orzeczenia nieważności małżeństwa, jednak winna ona mobilizować pracowników sądownictwa kościelnego do wierności nowemu prawu w perspektywie dobra wspólnego. Co więcej, winna ona, także w perspektywie wiernego przestrzegania terminów procesowych, mobilizować wszystkich pracowników sądów Kościoła do wzajemnej współpracy, tak aby współczesny proces kościelny przybliżył się do wiernych, gdyż to był jeden z fundamentów jego reformy.

Rezygnacja z urzędu kościelnego – wybrane aspekty ascetyczne i prawne w oparciu o motu proprio papieża Franciszka Imparare a congedarybrane aspekty ascetyczne i prawne w oparciu o motu proprio papieża Franciszka Imparare a congedarsi z 12 lutego 2018 roku

Artykuł stanowi komentarz do motu proprio papieża Franciszka Imparare a congedarsi z 12 lutego 2018 roku, dotyczącego ustąpienia z niektórych wyższych urzędów kościelnych z nominacji papieskiej. Przedstawia się najpierw motywację ascetyczną, jaka winna towarzyszyć duchownemu przy przechodzeniu na emeryturę. W dalszej kolejności omówione są nowości, jakie wnosi nowe ustawodawstwo. Pierwszą z nich jest zmiana sposobu utraty urzędu przez pełniących wysokie urzędy w Kurii Rzymskiej – zamiast odejścia z urzędu po osiągnięciu ustalonego wieku, są zobowiązani do składania rezygnacji na ręce papieża. Krytycznie ocenia się możliwość bezterminowego rozpatrywania rezygnacji przez biskupa rzymskiego. W tym czasie, który może dowolnie się przedłużać, biskup diecezji jest bowiem w stanie zawieszenia i może w każdej chwili opuścić swoją funkcję, co nie sprzyja dobremu wykonywaniu jego pasterskiej misji i podważa stabilność urzędu biskupa. Urząd biskupa, następcy apostołów, ma w Kościele ustrojowe znaczenie i wymaga odpowiedniej stabilności. Dlatego nigdy nie może być traktowany jako urząd ad tempus.

“First Hispanic Pope, First Hispanic Saint”: Whiteness, founding fathers and the canonization of Friar Junípero Serra

In 2015, Roman Catholic Pope Francis canonized eighteenth-century Franciscan Friar Junipero Serra, founder of nine California missions, after a long and controversial process in which the decision was opposed on the grounds that it expressed indifference to the human suffering precipitated by Spanish colonization of California. Contrarily, supporters of the canonization argued that the move represented an important and overdue symbolic endorsement of Latinos and the Hispanic roots of California. This article examines the polemics around the canonization that occurred in the popular media and discusses the implications of this case for an understanding of racial and ethnic dynamics regarding Latinos. Using Whiteness as an interpretive lens, I contend that the Serra controversy put on display a specific moment of the de-racialization of Latinos, in which Latinos are cast as foundational people in the history of the United States in a way that is typically reserved for White Americans.

Marsilius of Padua’s Criticism of Pope and Church Power

Marsilius of Padua’s Criticism of Pope and Church Power

Women Deacons and Service at the Altar

What did women ordained to the diaconate do during the celebration of Eucharist? What were they forbidden to do? Why? This article reviews papal edicts as well as local episcopal, synodal/conciliar...

The Pope and the Professor: Pius IX, Ignaz von Döllinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Age. By Thomas Albert Howard

<i>The Pope and the Professor: Pius IX, Ignaz von Döllinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Age</i>. By <scp>Thomas Albert Howard</scp>

Christopher Logue, Alexander Pope, and the Making of War Music

Christopher Logue, Alexander Pope, and the Making of War Music

Roma religiosa. Monasteri e città (secoli VI-XVI)

Medieval Roman monasticism has historically been of little scholarly interest, overshadowed, as so often happens, by the imposing presence of the papacy. The essays published here attempt to fill this gap, at least in part, by gathering together research relevant to the later Middle Ages, and in particular to the mendicant orders. Benedictine monasticism, however, remains relatively unexplored.

Catherine Pepinster, The Keys and the Kingdom: The British and the Papacy from John Paul II to Francis

Catherine Pepinster, <i>The Keys and the Kingdom: The British and the Papacy from John Paul II to Francis</i>

Loftur Helgason fer til Björgvinjar

The article recounts the account from the Árna saga about Loftur Helgason’s trip to Bergen in 1282 and his stay there over winter, explained in terms of the formal sources about the organization of the government and changes in the law in the latter half of the 13th century. These changes were aimed at introducing into Iceland the power of both the King and the Church and in fact marked the actual changes throughout the Norwegian state. Loftur was Skálholt‘s official and the story about him was part of a long-standing dispute about the position of the chieftains versus the new power of the Church and the opposition to its introduction. The article defines the political confusion described in the Árna sagain Bergen in the winter of 1282-1283 as, on the one hand, changes in the constitution and, on the other hand, legislation, and at the same time whether the Kings Hákon Hákonarson and his son Magnús had systematically pursued a policy of having the Church be an independent party to the government of the state from 1247 onward until the death of the latter in 1280. When the disagreement is looked at as continuing, it is seen that Icelanders had made preparations for changes in the constitution with assurances of introduction of the power of the Church beginning in 1253 and the power of the King from 1262, but, on the other hand, the disagreements in both countries disappeared in the 1270s in the face of the conflict of interests that resulted from the laws that followed in the wake of the constiututional changes. Árna saga tell of this and how the disputes were described, but also that their nature changed as King Erikur came to power in 1280, as he gave the power of the King a new policy that was aimed against the power of the Church. Ousting of the archbishop from Norway and the Christian funerals of the excommunicated chieftains are examples of the conditions of government that could not have been, if the King had no longer had executive power over Christian concerns, as he had already conceded power over spiritual issues to the Pope in Rome with the Settlement at Túnsberg in 1277.

Enti ecclesiastici e riforma del Terzo settore. Profili canonistici

SOMMARIO: 1. Riforma del Terzo settore e servizio della carita nella Chiesa - 2. La riforma del Terzo settore e le nuove sfide per gli enti ecclesiastici - 3. Il Motu proprio “Intima Ecclesiae natura” e l’evoluzione dell’ordinamento canonico - 4. Il Codice del Terzo settore e la sua applicazione agli enti ecclesiastici - 5. Implicazioni per gli enti della Chiesa: l’esigenza di trasparenza - 6. Il principio della trasparenza nella dottrina canonistica - 7. Il “patrimonio destinato”: implicazioni nell’ordinamento canonico - 8. Attivita diverse e controlli canonici: la sfida della governance e della gestione in un contesto concordatario - 9. Osservazioni conclusive. Catholic Church entities and the reform of the Third sector in Italian legislation. Canonical implications ABSTRACT: This paper deals with the canonical implications of Italy’s recent Third sector reform in Italian legislation (d. lgs n. 117/2017) for Catholic Church entities and/or agencies for charitable purposes. It starts with some preliminary remarks on the recent evolution of Canon Law concerning the discipline of charitable organizations and agencies that followed the Motu proprio Intima Ecclesiae natura, issued by Pope Benedict XVI in December 2012. It then examines the general framework of the new regulation of non profit organizations in Italian law, emphasizing the pros and cons (opportunities and risks) of its application to religious entities, particularly those connected to the Catholic Church, which in Italy traditionally enjoy a special discipline safeguarding their canonical structure and purposes. The paper then focuses on the impact of the new civil regulation that allows a wide range of charitable initiatives on behalf of religious organizations, on the governance of Catholic Church entities, which are submitted to the directives and authorizations of ecclesiastical authorities. Finally, it draws some conclusive remarks on the need to update and reform some administrative rules and praxis concerning the administration and finance of charitable institutions in Canon Law.

The Popes as Rulers of Rome in the Aftermath of Empire, 476–769

This article explores the degree to which the rule and style of the bishops of Rome after the deposition of the last Roman emperor in the West in 476 had any imperial elements, in the light of the evidence contained within theLiber pontificalis. Papal rule in Rome was cast as a replacement of imperial rule in religious matters, an opportunity for the bishop to assume political responsibility and also a deliberate emulation of imperial behaviour. This is manifest above all in the textual record in theLiber pontificalisof the papal embellishment of Rome, and in the physical evidence of the extant basilicas of the city. The deliberately imperial elements of papal self-presentation and the importance of Rome's primacy, apostolic succession and orthodoxy, all articulated so emphatically within theLiber pontificalis, indicate the multitude of strands by which the papacy wove the fabric of its ownimperiumor power.

A construção de Fátima

Mais de cinco milhões de pessoas por ano, em Fátima, fazem do santuário um dos mais concorridos do mundo. Há 100 anos, três crianças contaram que viram a mãe de Jesus. Pode isto ser verdade? Será Fátima uma mentira? Ou é uma construção? O artigo procura analisar alguns dos elementos que fizeram do fenómeno o que ele é: a linguagem religiosa da época, marcada por medos e rituais; a oposição da imprensa republicana, que seria a maior divulgadora inicial do fenómeno; a linguagem anticomunista, num contexto de violentas perseguições aos cristãos; os anseios de paz, presentes desde o início e que atravessaram o século, até à Guerra Colonial; e o discurso dos papas que, em visita ao santuário, destacaram ideias diferentes das que estavam presentes no discurso fundador – culminando no Papa Francisco que, em 2017, criticou mesmo a ideia da «santinha» a quem se pedem favores a baixo preço.

Representations of Social Cognition of TV One and Kompas TV Journalists in the Construction of News Discourse on Corruption: Critical Discourse Analysis

Criminal acts of corruption causing the destruction of human prosperity could be news discourse that receives lots of public’s serious attention. The difference of perspectives on corruption cases has impacted on the production of news discourse because of the influence of mass media’s backgrounds, knowledge, and ideologies. This present study aims to describe and analyze practices of the production of news discourse on corruption portrayed in TV One and Kompas TV mass media based on the van Dijk’s model of critical discourse analysis. The data presented in this qualitative study were collected through observation and interview. The findings reveal that TV One used person, self-presentation, role, and event schemes in the construction of news discourse on corruption. The use of these schemes was based on the priority of news values. Meanwhile, Kompas TV employed the same schemes as TV One did. The use of the schemes was deemed in terms of the ideology referred by this mass media, namely: “fortiter in re, suaviter in modo” (“firmly in action, gently in manner”). This ideology was used in the production of the news discourse so that the classical proverb in journalism “menghibur yang papa, mengingatkan yang mapan” (“comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable”) affirmed in this mass media. Both of Indonesia’s television channels tended to concern the control of cognition in producing the news discourse on a graft case.

Pope Francis at Lund, 2016, and the Relevance of Wolfhart Pannenberg’s Ecumenical Theology

After a long ecumenical Winter, it seems that Spring may finally be on the way, especially in light of the joint liturgical event in Lund, Sweden, between Pope Francis and leaders of the Lutheran World Federation, in 2016, heralding the symbolic quincentenary of Martin Luther’s Reformation. Against this background, this article suggests that Wolfhart Pannenberg’s (1928–2014) ecumenical theology deserves a fresh hearing. Pannenberg’s view of the ecumenical place of the Bishop of Rome, his re-appropriation of transubstantiation as a ‘transignification’, and his defence of Lutheran ordinations against Vatican II’s pronouncement that they suffer from a defectus ordinis, are outlined. At this juncture Pannenberg’s legacy can chart a way forward for Christian unity, especially eucharistic communion, for the Roman Catholic and Lutheran Churches.

Design &amp; Fabrication of Electrically Operated Papad Making Machine

Design &amp; Fabrication of Electrically Operated Papad Making Machine

La raíz sacerdotal de la colegialidad de los Obispos

La raíz sacerdotal de la colegialidad de los Obispos

Due matrimoni alle origini dello scisma anglicano

SOMMARIO: 1. Il contesto storico e politico della Riforma anglicana - 2. Il precedente storico: la dichiarazione di nullita del matrimonio tra Edoardo IV ed Elizabeth Woodville - 3. Il Titulus Regius - 4. Fondamento giuridico del Titulus Regius in base al diritto canonico - 4.1 (segue) Aspetti sostanziali - 4.2 (segue) Profili procedurali - 5. Sui motivi di nullita del matrimonio tra Enrico VIII e Caterina d’Aragona - 6. Il processo di nullita matrimoniale e lo scisma - 7. Conclusioni. Did two marriages cause the Anglican Schism? ABSTRACT: The Anglican schism, solemnized by the Act of Supremacy in 1534 emerged from the European Protestant Reformation that at its beginning was a movement of dissent against the Roman Church. It spread throughout Europe thanks to political and economic support of many princes who transformed it into State religion. Movement’s success is strictly linked to the intention of individual States to claim their autonomy, unfettering themselves from external influences, such as the papacy, and thus creating State’s territorial Churches. The Church of England’s schism originates from this peculiar historical and religious scenario, and has its roots in a general process to claim sovereignty of the Kingdom against any external influence. Nevertheless, someone – especially English literature, still believes that the real reason behind Anglican schism is Pope Clement VII’s refusal to declare null the marriage of Henry VIII with Catherine of Aragon and consequently preventing him from marrying Anne of Boleyn. We deemed it necessary a critical examination of the matter concerning the refusal to grant nullity to Henry VIII’s marriage, in order to determine whether the underlying cause of the Act of Supremacy was a love story that turned out badly, or other more ordinary reasons. For this purpose, we have analysed an equally resounded, but lesser known trial. It regards the declaration of nullity of the marriage between Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, granted few decades earlier, as it represents a significant legal/matrimonial precedent of schismatic nature. We tried to evaluate the legal legitimacy, according to matrimonial canon law, in force at that time, to evaluate whether or not justice was done.