Preaching Goes Viral

[2RY] Does The Covid-19 Pandemic Authorize The Derogation From The Canonical Rule Of Absolution Necessarily Preceded By Individual Confession?

R4: Either/Or presented, “false dichotomy”

R1: Main claim or thesis (supported by much of the sermon or primary source)

R5: Balanced thinking and multiple perspectives

M4: Self-references and leadership: Author mentions self or group leader(s)

Indeed, Can. 960 foresees that individual and integral confession constitutes the only ordinary means to receive absolution from a priest. The general absolution is only foreseen by the Codex for absolute emergency situations of a general nature, and this is the case envisaged by Can. 961, § 1, at No. 2 (the “gravis necessitas” (grave necessity), to which the Signatura refers), or of a personal nature, provided for in No. 1 (‘periculum mortis’ (danger of death)

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Stefano Testa Bappenheim