Dr Edward Peters:Argumentum pro: Laity can preside at certain liturgies

In the course of answering some questions about "presiders" at liturgies, Fr. Edward McNamara, LC, made an interesting, but I think controvertible, statement: "Only an ordained minister can, strictly speaking, preside at any liturgical act." That sounds inconsistent with the language used in several authoritative sources.

Read about it at: http://www.canonlaw.info/2008/01/argumentum-pro-laity-can-preside-at_24.html

And Dr Peters reminds us that this Friday, January 25, is the 25th anniversary of the promulgation of the 1983 Code of Canon Law!