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To: pax_et_bonum

Nope. Can’t happen. The Pope can excommunicate him if he’s teaching outside the scope of the Magesterium but he can’t defrock a bishop any more than St Peter could’ve kicked St Andrew out of the group of Apostles.


18 posted on 05/10/2013 6:31:41 AM PDT by pgkdan (Some taglines never go away....)
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To: pgkdan

Why not?


20 posted on 05/10/2013 6:33:46 AM PDT by pax_et_bonum (God Bless America)
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To: pgkdan

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


25 posted on 05/10/2013 6:48:29 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro can't pass E-verify)
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To: pgkdan

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.


36 posted on 05/10/2013 8:06:14 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas is a state of mind - Steinbeck)
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