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Did you guys get official permission from Cardinal McElroy to do this? Sentence two of Canon 216 states: “Nevertheless, no undertaking is to claim the name ‘Catholic’ without the consent of competent ecclesiastical authority.” The first sentence of Canon 216 reads: “Since they participate in the mission of the Church, all the Christian faithful have the right to promote or sustain apostolic action even by their own undertakings, according to their own state and condition.”, which I think you guys at CCD are in full compliance, but I’m not so sure if you guys are conforming to the sentence two, unless you can enlighten me on this? As I understand Canon Law, the Diocese of San Diego would only have to show that one or more statements a CCD article has made in all its history was wrong while using the word “Catholic” to accuse a violation of this section of the 1983 CCL.
“[The Christian faithful] have the right and even at times the duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church and to make their opinion known to the rest of the Christian faithful…” (Canon 212, §3). Every Catholic, individually or as a group, has the right to speak as a Catholic. Furthermore, the National Catholic Reporter, has twice been denied the right to use the name Catholic, once in the 1960s, and again by Bishop Finn. Sitting modernist diocesan bishops continue to give the publication interviews in full support of it. Under those conditions, the California Catholic Daily has no obligation to hold itself to a ridiculous double standard.
This post should be front and center, and in bold type. Thank you.
If one person does something wrong, everyone can?
Ok Canon 212 §3, then why did Michael Voris have to change the name of his organization then?
While some canons speaking of permission or consent say “diocesan bishop” or “local ordinary,” canon 216 says “competent ecclesiastical authority.” Why would you conclude that that must be the Bishop of San Diego? The California Catholic Daily concerns all of California. Even its writers are from different parts of California. And surely some of the diocesan bishops in California approve of the work of California Catholic Daily. Moreover, the California Catholic Daily has been operating under that name for so long that they have the tacit approval (a canonical thing) of the prior Bishop of San Diego, of the current Bishop of San Diego, and of all the diocesan bishops of California. Michael Voris’s first organization was called Real Catholic TV. He got himself into trouble because the name implied that he was presenting real Catholicism in opposition to the counter-Church operating within the diocesan chanceries of America. How do you envision this conversation with Cardinal McElroy going? “Okay, you’re the boss, Your Eminence. We’ll change to the California Christian Daily.” Meanwhile, McElroy picks up the telephone to give another interview to the National Catholic Reporter. As I said before, every Catholic, individually or as a group, has the right to speak as a Catholic, and California Catholic Daily has no obligation to hold itself to a ridiculous double standard.