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To: AnAmericanMother

I thought the bishop of a diocese still had sayso over what orders were allowed within the boundaries of his diocese?


13 posted on 11/18/2005 7:40:35 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Two exceptions are the Society of Jesus and Opus Dei.


19 posted on 11/18/2005 7:57:00 AM PST by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum; AnAmericanMother; NYer
Bishops have full authority in their diocese and can strip the catholic association from them as Cardinal Egan did with Marist College.  Religious Orders are usually private and report to a provincial and if a priest, usually incardinated to a bishop associated with their order.  That by no means allows an order to do as they will in a any diocese where they live, teach, minister, etc.  The local ordinary has control.  I am sure there is more to this in the Canon Law.. Cf. Code of Canon Law, Canon 803, 3.  Cf. Code of Canon Law, Canon 808.

Veritatis splendor

116. We have the duty, as Bishops, to be vigilant that the word of God is faithfully taught. My Brothers in the Episcopate, it is part of our pastoral ministry to see to it that this moral teaching is faithfully handed down and to have recourse to appropriate measures to ensure that the faithful are guarded from every doctrine and theory contrary to it. In carrying out this task we are all assisted by theologians; even so, theological opinions constitute neither the rule nor the norm of our teaching. Its authority is derived, by the assistance of the Holy Spirit and in communion cum Petro et sub Petro, from our fidelity to the Catholic faith which comes from the Apostles. As Bishops, we have the grave obligation to be personally vigilant that the "sound doctrine" (1 Tim 1:10) of faith and morals is taught in our Dioceses.

A particular responsibility is incumbent upon Bishops with regard to Catholic institutions. Whether these are agencies for the pastoral care of the family or for social work, or institutions dedicated to teaching or health care, Bishops can canonically erect and recognize these structures and delegate certain responsibilities to them. Nevertheless, Bishops are never relieved of their own personal obligations. It falls to them, in communion with the Holy See, both to grant the title "Catholic" to Church-related schools,179 universities,180 health-care facilities and counseling services, and, in cases of a serious failure to live up to that title, to take it away.

23 posted on 11/18/2005 8:08:12 AM PST by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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