Yikes… Lord have mercy on us all! Wouldn’t the fact that he’s skipped town and was very disobedient to his superior be sufficient to suspend his faculties earlier in this piece? And maybe to warn the relevant bishop of the rogue cleric in his town?
Father Cunha would have an impediment against his ordination under Canon 1041, 4 if he had committed murder before ordination. Would he be liable to laicisation if he commits murder after ordination? Any comments from our legal eagle?
“His insistence on standing up for the priest was probably more related to a misguided belief that he could be reformed, and that with a scolding he might fall in line”
I will never understand this notion, which appears to ignore entirely the concept of justice (which I never hear preached about) or how punishment itself may be medicinal to the guilty, but it baffles me all the more when it is applied to a murderer.
Being hundreds of miles from mainland Portugal, I guess Madeira was a haven for people engaged in deviant behavior.
Yikes… Lord have mercy on us all! Wouldn’t the fact that he’s skipped town and was very disobedient to his superior be sufficient to suspend his faculties earlier in this piece? And maybe to warn the relevant bishop of the rogue cleric in his town?
Father Cunha would have an impediment against his ordination under Canon 1041, 4 if he had committed murder before ordination. Would he be liable to laicisation if he commits murder after ordination? Any comments from our legal eagle?
“His insistence on standing up for the priest was probably more related to a misguided belief that he could be reformed, and that with a scolding he might fall in line”
I will never understand this notion, which appears to ignore entirely the concept of justice (which I never hear preached about) or how punishment itself may be medicinal to the guilty, but it baffles me all the more when it is applied to a murderer.