canon law

I particularly like Guildford Cathedral for their music program, and was excited last week to hear a Christological sermon by the celebrant. However, on hearing it, I was disappointed, because rather than stressing the deity of Christ, she managed to inadvertently imply Arianism, through two...

I would like to see Pope Benedict XVI, requiscat in pace, memory eternal, be glorified as a saint. Until the RCC officially beatifies and canonizes him, what are the rules concerning his veneration? For example, are Roman Catholics allowed to refer to people not officially canonized or in the...

This development makes me extremely sad: CANADA: New gender blessings for trial use | VirtueOnline – The Voice for Global Orthodox Anglicanism As I see it, not only is this horrible liturgical theology, but also horrible moral theology, and represents a spectacular failure on the part of the...

Okay, I have a somewhat complicated question that I need help addressing, last fall I had to have my confession heard by a rather liberal religious priest. When I confessed my sins to this priest, I tried to confess the number of times to sin mortally, but he told me not to say the number of...

Suicides used to be denied Christian burial, and often were buried in the land outside the bounds of the formal Churchyard. Particularly egregious examples were buried in more secular locales such as crossroads. The justification seems that to kill yourself, entails rejection of God's will...

Link: https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/changing-canon-law-pope-brings-latin-and-eastern-practices-closer