The inaccuracies, difficulties of interpretation, and problems of concrete application of Traditionis Custodes and the Responsa ad Dubia have raised many questions among canonists, pastors, and institutes whose proper law binds them to the liturgical forms of the Latin tradition.
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Showing posts with label Infallibility. Show all posts
Are Canonizations Infallible? — An important new book from Arouca Press
I am pleased to announce the publication of a new book: Are Canonizations Infallible? Revisiting a Disputed Question, from Arouca Press.
It is a 276-page collection of fifteen essays written by twelve authors: Phillip Campbell, Fr Thomas Crean, Roberto de Mattei, William Matthew Diem, Christopher Ferrara, Msgr. Brunero Gherardini, Fr John Hunwicke, Peter Kwasniewski, John Lamont, Joseph Shaw, Fr. Jean-François Thomas, and José Antonio Ureta. I served as the volume’s editor. The book includes not only sources in English but also translations from French, Italian, and Portuguese. Several of the chapters are published in it for the first time.
All the arguments you’ve ever seen in favor of the infallibility of canonizations or against it—and some you probably haven’t seen—are found in the pages of this book. Authors line up behind both sides. It is a fair and full presentation, which does not shy away from toppling “certainties” that are sometimes mindlessly repeated. The book also serves as an introduction to the history of canonization (including changes made to the process over time) and to the nature and objects of papal infallibility, with Msgr. Gherardini’s mini-treatise especially impressive in that regard. The authors go into what the papal act of canonization means or entails, the conditions it may have for moral certainty on the part of the faithful, and what it concretely demands of members of the Church.
The Doctrine of Papal Infallibility
In the following lecture Prof. John Rao lectures on Vatican I, and gives a lucid explanation of the true meaning of papal infallibility.
De Mattei: The “Viganò case” and the “impasse” of Pope Francis
Roberto de Mattei
Corrispondenza Romana
November 14, 2018
An
answer has finally arrived. Not the answer – vainly expected - from Pope
Francis, but a significant one nevertheless, from a journalist who is part of
his close entourage. The author is
Andrea Tornielli, the Vatican reporter for La Stampa, in charge of the website
Vatican Insider. Along with the journalist Gianni Valente, he just published
The Day of Judgment, an extensive paper on the “Viganò case”, with the eloquent
subtitle: Conflicts, power struggles, abuses and scandals. What is really
happening in the Church (Edizioni Piemme, 255 pp.).
"The authority of canonisations": Do all canonisations need to be accepted as infallible? -- a special guest article
The authority of canonisations
by Dr. John R. T. Lamont
The canonisations of John XXIII and John Paul II, and the announcement of the pending canonisation of Paul VI, have raised some controversy among traditionalists. On the one hand, objections have been raised to the conduct of the process of these canonisations and to the claim that these pontiffs exhibited heroic virtue. On the other hand, there has been a tendency to hold that traditionalists should accept that all canonisations are infallible, because this is thought to be the traditional theological view. This latter tendency seems to have got the upper hand, with the result that Catholics have largely come to the conclusion that once someone is canonised, it is the duty of Catholics to accept their sanctity and to cease questioning their canonisation. This essay is intended to reject this conclusion, and to present an alternative view on the subject of the duty of Catholics with regard to canonisations.
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