Year 1917 AD is the year when the Code of Canon Law is put together and published for the Roman Catholic Church for the very first time. Year 1983 AD is the year when the said Code gets revised, changed and translated into vernacular languages. The 1983 Codex Iuris Canonici is the "Canon Law" mentioned by Burke and others.
The book of the Law ends with a sentence that puts the hair on the tough ruler's back stand up. The last sentence of the book of Canon Law brings the whole thing to a proper, Christian and Roman Catholic perspective. It is the sentence that the emperor dreads and avoids like a plague. It is the line that is blanked and erased in the monarch's copy of the book. Those are the words that he will not dare to harbor in his thoughts or utter with his lips. The few magic words have the power to turn the supreme hegemon into a Bishop of Christ and a Shepherd of His flock. Brrrrr!!!
How can he freely interdict, excommunicate, suppress, send to hell or plainly jerk his sheep around when the Canon Law ends with these dreadful words:
The salvation of souls must always be the supreme law in the Church?
Your post is filled with misdirections and irrelevancies:
You wrote: "Since the "Canon Law" gets mentioned a lot, without a shred of a quote, some simple facts need to be spelled out. Year 1917 AD is the year when the Code of Canon Law is put together and published for the Roman Catholic Church for the very first time. Year 1983 AD is the year when the said Code gets revised, changed and translated into vernacular languages. The 1983 Codex Iuris Canonici is the "Canon Law" mentioned by Burke and others.
IBINB: I know the history of canon law as well, if not better, than you. Why post this then?
"The book of the Law ends with a sentence that puts the hair on the tough ruler's back stand up. The last sentence of the book of Canon Law brings the whole thing to a proper, Christian and Roman Catholic perspective. It is the sentence that the emperor dreads and avoids like a plague. It is the line that is blanked and erased in the monarch's copy of the book. Those are the words that he will not dare to harbor in his thoughts or utter with his lips. The few magic words have the power to turn the supreme hegemon into a Bishop of Christ and a Shepherd of His flock. Brrrrr!!!
How can he freely interdict, excommunicate, suppress, send to hell or plainly jerk his sheep around when the Canon Law ends with these dreadful words: The salvation of souls must always be the supreme law in the Church?"
They are not dreadful words at all. And they are exactly why Burke is doing what he is doing. Again, I know Burke personally. I know how he thinks. He knows that obedience is important. He knows proper exercise of authority is important. St. Stan's flouted that. That cannot be allowed to stand when it comes to defying the proper authority over an issue like the ecclesiastical control of a parish taht claims to be Catholic.