In an interview with the Catholic News Agency (July 10) the Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal, Vatican praised the 1917 Code of Canon Law which was clear that a priest in mortal sin should not offer Mass without availing of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.This law which was there in the 1917 code 'has been eliminated'. Cardinal Raymond Burke says he thinks that law should be reintroduced.(1)
It may be mentioned that there are cardinals, bishops and priests in the USA who give pro abortion politicians the Eucharist. They know it is wrong and yet they persist.
Then there are Catholic religious who reject the Creed and defined dogmas and yet they are allowed to offer Mass under the 1983 Code of Canon Law.
The new Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has not denied controversial statements he has made about the Catholic Faith and yet is allowed to offer Mass.Similarly Pope Benedict XVI and Vatican Curia cardinals have stated that Jews do not have to convert in the present times contradicting the Nicene Creed, the Bible, the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and Vatican Council II (AG 7).
-Lionel Andrades
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Similarly, the cardinal commended the 1917 Code for its clear stipulation that a priest in the state of mortal sin should refrain from celebrating Mass “without first availing himself of sacramental confession” or as soon as possible “in the absence of a confessor,” when the Mass is “a case of necessity” and he has “made an act of perfect contrition.”
“Well, simply that canon that was in the 1917 code was eliminated and I think it should be reintroduced, because the idea of worthiness pertains in a preeminent way to the priest who is offering the sacrifice,” he said.
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