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Author Topic: Reasons for concealing ordination / conditional ordination history  (Read 1408 times)

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Re: Reasons for concealing ordination / conditional ordination history
« Reply #15 on: June 07, 2023, 10:09:13 PM »
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  • In the old days, conditional ordinations were NEVER made public.  They were kept extremely quiet and the record of them having been done was locked in a chancery file that few could access.

    The reason for the secretiveness being the amount of scruples the laity would have about receiving possibly invalid sacraments. 
     
    The theologians say that, at least with Masses that were perhaps invalid, the graces would have been supplied from the “treasury of the Church”.

    In these times when we lack proper authorities with a canonical mission and lack true seminaries in which to train priests (a seminary must be canonically erected… what are passing today as trad seminaries are nothing more than houses of study), most of us feel conditional ordinations should be made public knowledge.  Recent videos of botched ordinations and consecrations prove why we need to be more open with this information. 

    I am a priest.

    Thank you, Father.