Topic: canon law

• Morning Catholic must-reads: 26/01/11

  Posted on 26 January 2011. Tags: Anthony Hopkins, Archbishop Joseph Naumann, canon law, clerical abuse crisis, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, David Naglieri, Fr Tim Finigan, Jim Graves, mantilla, Mgr Charles Pope, Nicholas Cafardi, Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI, pornography, Roman Rota, St Paul Outside the Walls, The Rite, veil, Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, World Mission Sunday, Zenit

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• Children are being confirmed too early

  Posted on 13 August 2010. Tags: canon law, Confirmation, Holy Communion, Leo XIII, sacraments

  Let’s delay the sacrament until children are 16

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• Public relations blunders leave the faithful confused

  Posted on 21 July 2010. Tags: anti-Catholicism, canon law, public relations disaster, Vatican, women's ordination

  Malicious or ignorant reports do not only damage the reputation of ordinary Catholics; they also cause ordinary Catholics to lose confidence in their pastors

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• To the outside world, the Vatican has lumped together child abuse and the ordination of women

  Posted on 15 July 2010. Tags: canon law, clerical abuse crisis, delicta graviora, Fr Federico Lombardi, women priests

  There is a great deal of good in these new norms. If only the Vatican had issued two separate documents

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