Confirmation of an adult catholic by a priest
"The chancellor of a North American diocese wrote: "This letter is given to inform you that a priest who intends to confirm adult Catholics at the Easter Vigil must for validity in accordance with Canons 882 to 884 receive the faculty from the Bishop." It seems that the Code confers t...
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2007
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Roman replies and CLSA advisory opinions
Year: 2007, Pages: 71-73 |
| IxTheo Classification: | SB Catholic Church law |
| Further subjects: | B
Adult baptism
B Confirmation B Catholic church Codex iuris canonici 1983. can. 882-884 B Sakramentenrecht |
| Summary: | "The chancellor of a North American diocese wrote: "This letter is given to inform you that a priest who intends to confirm adult Catholics at the Easter Vigil must for validity in accordance with Canons 882 to 884 receive the faculty from the Bishop." It seems that the Code confers the faculty upon priests to confirm certain adult Catholics when canon 883 states, "The following possess the faculty of administering confirmation by the law itself ... 2° as regards the person in question, the presbyter who...admits one already baptized into the full communion of the Catholic Church." Does the priest have by the law itself the faculty to confirm a fallen away Catholic returning to full communion with the Church?" |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Roman replies and CLSA advisory opinions
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