Daily Archives: August 10, 2023

I’m Going to Start Issuing my own Motu Propria

Or is that Motibus Propriis? My in-house Latinist (my best friend and drinking Buddy) insists on the latter.

Check this out from the gang at CNA:

“Pope Francis (sic) Changes Canon Law on Opus Dei and Any Future Personal Prelatures”

The logical conclusion to which I am drawn is this. If the “changes to Canon Law” now place the Prelature on the level of a Society of Apostolic life, does that mean Opus Dei has been knocked down a peg or has the FSSP, another Society of Apostolic Life, been elevated?

Furthermore this:

“It also further defined the role of the prelate as a “moderator endowed with the faculties of an ordinary’.”

This could be nothing but it’s not. Looks like the Fraternity might not ever get a bishop as they’ve so long been promised.

Developing.

Sacred Heart of Jesus, St. Lucy’s Catholic Church/National Shrine of St. Gerard, Newark, NJ