3/5. Was (and is) the abdication of Benedict XVI canonically valid? (by google-translate from Polish)
- Can the ministry be translated as munus?
- On the official Vatican website, does each translation from Latin into other languages wrongly identify munus and the ministerium? What does this suggest?
Can the ministry be translated as munus? No. In the Tradition of the Catholic Church, these words have always had a different meaning - no abdicating pope has ever used the word ministerium to renounce his office[1]. The Code of Canon Law (1983), whose author is John Paul II, also nowhere identifies these two words[2]. By renouncing the ministry, he does not renounce Munus. This relation is shown in the diagram on ecclesiamilitans.com, the author of which is Tony La Rosa[3], but for an even better understanding let's use the analogy - if the king had escaped from his country, otherwise he would have been murdered, he would not exercise his ministry but would he stop beeing a king No. Besides, if the ministry contained munus, then anyone who would dress like a pope, spoke like a pope and act like a pope could be recognized as a pope, because why not? Despite this, there are people in the church hierarchy who firmly argue that one can be equated with the other, while referring to the definitions contained in popular Latin dictionaries[4].
The act of papal resignation cannot be interpreted by anyone and for this reason also the ministry cannot be interpreted as munus (and vice versa)[5]. Has this happened on the official Vatican website, i.e. has the resignation document been properly translated from Latin into any other language? No. All of the 8 translations (English, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Polish and Arabic) mistakenly identify these two concepts[6]. Suggested to masses of people, for example, such things as: munus is the ministry, renouncing the ministry renounces munus, the pope (as a human being) is above the law, the pope may create new language rules or intentions of the pope, even if they are not expressed in word or deed , are above the law. All of these claims are not true. We even have canon 17 in the Code of Canon Law, which gives it legal status[7]. We cannot interpret the words of the Code arbitrarily, otherwise the law ceases to be objective. Munus is not a ministry, when he renouned his ministry, he does not renounced his munus, and if someone claims otherwise - a mistake significant to the act would appear to us, and according to canons 124§1 and 188, the entire act is invalid[8].
[1] fromrome.info/…/boniface-viiis-…
[2] fromrome.info/…/munus-and-minis… . In German translation, the munus and the ministry were identified (fromrome.info/…/investigating-t…)
[3] www.ecclesiamilitans.com/…/diagram-of-the-…
[4] www.youtube.com/watch
[5] fromrome.info/…/my-meeting-with…
[6] fromrome.info/…/the-vatican-has…
[7] www.katolicki.net/ftp/kodeks_prawa_ka…
[8] Ibidem.
- On the official Vatican website, does each translation from Latin into other languages wrongly identify munus and the ministerium? What does this suggest?
Can the ministry be translated as munus? No. In the Tradition of the Catholic Church, these words have always had a different meaning - no abdicating pope has ever used the word ministerium to renounce his office[1]. The Code of Canon Law (1983), whose author is John Paul II, also nowhere identifies these two words[2]. By renouncing the ministry, he does not renounce Munus. This relation is shown in the diagram on ecclesiamilitans.com, the author of which is Tony La Rosa[3], but for an even better understanding let's use the analogy - if the king had escaped from his country, otherwise he would have been murdered, he would not exercise his ministry but would he stop beeing a king No. Besides, if the ministry contained munus, then anyone who would dress like a pope, spoke like a pope and act like a pope could be recognized as a pope, because why not? Despite this, there are people in the church hierarchy who firmly argue that one can be equated with the other, while referring to the definitions contained in popular Latin dictionaries[4].
The act of papal resignation cannot be interpreted by anyone and for this reason also the ministry cannot be interpreted as munus (and vice versa)[5]. Has this happened on the official Vatican website, i.e. has the resignation document been properly translated from Latin into any other language? No. All of the 8 translations (English, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Polish and Arabic) mistakenly identify these two concepts[6]. Suggested to masses of people, for example, such things as: munus is the ministry, renouncing the ministry renounces munus, the pope (as a human being) is above the law, the pope may create new language rules or intentions of the pope, even if they are not expressed in word or deed , are above the law. All of these claims are not true. We even have canon 17 in the Code of Canon Law, which gives it legal status[7]. We cannot interpret the words of the Code arbitrarily, otherwise the law ceases to be objective. Munus is not a ministry, when he renouned his ministry, he does not renounced his munus, and if someone claims otherwise - a mistake significant to the act would appear to us, and according to canons 124§1 and 188, the entire act is invalid[8].
[1] fromrome.info/…/boniface-viiis-…
[2] fromrome.info/…/munus-and-minis… . In German translation, the munus and the ministry were identified (fromrome.info/…/investigating-t…)
[3] www.ecclesiamilitans.com/…/diagram-of-the-…
[4] www.youtube.com/watch
[5] fromrome.info/…/my-meeting-with…
[6] fromrome.info/…/the-vatican-has…
[7] www.katolicki.net/ftp/kodeks_prawa_ka…
[8] Ibidem.