Pope Francis' First Crisis? Defiant Archbishop Refuses to Quit

ABC/Univision ^ | 5/0/2013 | Santiago Wills

[impimp]

Archbishop is a title. My understanding is that they can be fired, but once he is fired he would remain a bishop for life.

Being a bishop is a title that cannot normally be removed as it involves Holy Orders (i.e. a sacrament) and stays with you for life.

[A.A. Cunningham]

It’s called forced laicization, more casually referred to as “defrocking”.

Only by secular neophytes. Neither word appears in Canon Law. The correct term is dismissal.

[saganite]

My point is that I statehood wouldn’t seem to be a matter for the Vatican’s consideration one way or the other.

[The Duke]

"We just stopped sending him paychecks...

...and the problem just .. fixes itself!"

[A.A. Cunningham]

Per Canon Law, Nieves can be dismissed from the clerical state and excommunicated.

[cll]

The thing is, he forces his political views on the parishioners, and that was the source of one of the complaints: asking the Vatican to tell the Archbishop to cease and desist from engaging in island politics. He just won’t stop.

[pax_et_bonum]

What is difference between “dismissed from the clerical state” and “forced laicization”?

[A.A. Cunningham]

One term is canonical and one term is secular.

[pax_et_bonum]

So, they mean the same thing?

[FatherFig1o155]

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

[verga]

Time to let the Swiss Guard pay a visit to Puerto Rico.

[The Great RJ]

Send a cardinal to deliver a formal written declaration of his excommunication and declaring him apostate.

[pax_et_bonum]

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Lol!

[ansel12]

I think the United States may have something to say about Europeans sending government serving mercenaries to operate over here in our neighborhood.

[RobinOfKingston]

Does the Swiss Guard have a SWAT team?

[JCBreckenridge]

But he can take away his rights to perform mass, hear confessions, etc.

Which is what will happen. He’ll do exactly that - call the archbishop to Rome. If the archbishop refuses to come then he’ll be excommunicated. He’ll appoint a new archbishop.

[Buckeye McFrog]

anybody here know the Latin for “you are fired”?

[cll]

“anybody here know the Latin for “you are fired”?”

Vos delenda est...

[Teófilo]

This article at Vatican Insider says the Holy See cleared the "pedophile-protector" charge levied against against the Archbishop.

Absent that charge, I see no grounds for dismissal. An admonishment, perhaps, but not dismissal.

~Theo

[Teófilo]

This is my take in Spanish.

~Theo