Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Thoughts on China's New Bishops

Dr Edward Peters has some additional thoughts on the episcopal ordinations in China:
The excommunications consequent to the illicit episcopal ordinations (1983 CIC 1382) staged by Chinese Communists are so obvious that few commentators have mentioned them. Here I raise a different question: In the face of some sacraments being so obviously celebrated with no discernible pastoral sense and, in fact, driven by little besides a "let's stick it to the Catholic Church" animus, has the time come to step back and ask some hard questions about the canonical validity of such sacraments?
The issue Dr Peters raises is not one of matter or form, but of intention...a rather interesting view...

The full text of his comments is here

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