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Augustine
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2004/5/14 下午 01:26:28
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THE RITE OF DEGRADATION [roughly translated from the Latin]
If the degradandus(to be degraded) be an archbishop, the degrading prelate removes his pallium, saying:
"We deprive thee of the rights and privileges of the episcopal dignity, symbolized in this pallium, since thou hast abused them."
Then, even if the degradandus be a mere bishop, the degrading prelate removes his mitre, saying:
"We strip thy head of this miter, emblem of the episcopal dignity, since thou hast befouled it by thy ill government."
Then one of the ministers brings the Book of the Gospel to the degradandus, which the degrading prelate takes from his hands, saying;
"Give us back the Gospel! Since thou hast spurned the grace of God and made thyself unworthy of the office of preaching, we rightly deprive you of this office."
Then the degrading prelate removes the ring from the finger of the degradandus, saying:
"Rightly do we pull off thy ring, the sign of fidelity, since thou hast made bold to rape God's own bride, the Church."
At this time one of the ministers brings the degradandus a crosier, which the degrading prelate takes from his hands, saying;
"Thy shepherd's staff we take from thee, that thou shalt be powerless henceforward to exercise that office of correction, which thou hast brought to disarray."
Then the ministers take off the gloves of the degradandus, and the degrading prelate lightly scrapes thumbs and hands with a knife blade or a shard of glass, saying:
"We hereby deprive thee, to the extent of our powers, of the grace of spiritual blessing and of sacramental anointing, that thou shouldst forfeit the office of sanctifying and of blessing, and their effects."
With the same knife blade or shard the degrading prelate lightly scrapes the head of the degradandus, saying:
"We utterly erase and eradicate the consecration, blessing, and anointing bestowed upon thee, and we put thee out of the episcopal order, whence thou returnest unclothed."
The ministers remove the shoes from the degradandus.
Thus ends the ceremony
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Augustine
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2004/5/14 下午 01:27:15
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What is the definition of degradation of a bishop? And the canonical conditions for it?
Would the following cases be applicable?
1)Bishop Daniel Ryan, of Springfield, Illinois, resigned on October 19, 1999, one week before the filing of a lawsuit that named him as an active homosexual who had engaged in degraded sex with clergy and male prostitutes.
2)Archbishop Rembert Weakland resigned on May 24, 2002, after it was disclosed that he had embezzled $450,000 of Church funds to pay hush money to a man who was his homosexual catamite.
3)Bishop Kendrick Williams, of Lexington, Kentucky, was forced to resign in July 2002 after being accused in several-sex abuse cases filed by different former paramours.
4)Bishop Keith Symons, of Palm Beach, Florida, was forced to resign in June 1998 after admitting that he had had criminal sexual relations with at least five minors.
5)Bishop Anthony J. O'Connell, of Palm Beach, Florida, who succeeded Bishop Symons, was forced to resign in March 2002 after admitting that he had sexually abused a teen-ager and a seminarian.
6)Bishop James F. McCarthy, pastor of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Shrub Oak, Westchester County, New York, was forced to resign in June 2002 after admitting to several degraded shack-ups with women.
7)Bishop Patrick Ziemann, of Santa Rosa, California, resigned in July 1999 when he was sued by a presbyter for an admitted homosexual shack-up with the presbyter.
8)Bishop Thomas J. O'Brien, of Phoenix, Arizona, was forced to resign after his arrest in June 2003 for abandoning the scene of an accident, in which he struck and killed a man, calling him a "dog." This "bishop" didn't even bother to get out to give the man Last Rites. Moreover, the bishop methodically attempted to conceal the evidence of his crime. Only weeks earlier he had signed an agreement with criminal investigators admitting that he had transfered sex-criminal presbyters in an obstruction-of-justice scheme entered into with other U.S. bishops.
9)Bishop Howard Hubbard, of Albany, New York, faces accusations that he prostituted a 16-year-old boy, whom he had been paying off for sex. The apparent murder of Fr. John Minkler has severely complicated matters because he was identified as the author of a 1995 report addressed to New York's Cardinal John J. O'Connor, detailing a ring of homosexual Albany presbyters including two young presbyters with whom Bishop Hubbard had alleged long-term homosexual shack-ups. Some have even suspected Hubbard of being implicated in the apparent murder as part of a cover-up plot. A criminal investigation is in progress.
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edward
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2004/8/26 上午 08:14:27
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奧兄所提的那個Degradation的禮儀，在一本舊版拉丁語主教禮書中可以找到。
Pontificale Romanum
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