Hi. It's unusual, certainly, but nothing unheard of. There are numbers of priests who have unusual canonical arrangements, such as he. I forget the exact details, but Fr. Z is incardnated in one Italian diocese or other, I believe, which somehow allows him liberty to take on various independent projects.
I know of other priests like this as well. They are accountable, but only indirectly to any local ordinary. This gives him considerable liberty to do the things he does, obviously. One of the things he does, besides helping out locally, is to offer Mass at our church in Detroit occasionally, which is nice. He's a great homilist, as you might expect.
Does Fr Z get disability pay if he throws out his back doing these double back flips while reading Modernism through Modernity?
ReplyDeleteNew Z Swag coffee mug suggestion:
"If you squint hard enough, you can see its orthodox."
Is it not curious that Fr. Z. has YET to have a real parish assignment?
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ReplyDeleteHi. It's unusual, certainly, but nothing unheard of. There are numbers of priests who have unusual canonical arrangements, such as he. I forget the exact details, but Fr. Z is incardnated in one Italian diocese or other, I believe, which somehow allows him liberty to take on various independent projects.
I know of other priests like this as well. They are accountable, but only indirectly to any local ordinary. This gives him considerable liberty to do the things he does, obviously. One of the things he does, besides helping out locally, is to offer Mass at our church in Detroit occasionally, which is nice. He's a great homilist, as you might expect.
Imagine a commentator having to appeal to Pope Leo XII to justify what Pope Saint Pius X was saying and doing.
ReplyDeleteIt is time to piss on the syncretist fire, call in the ecumenical dogs, and declare the V2 hunt for peace with the world over.