Vatican Accepts Bishops Resignation Today

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Just a blurb from the Vatican news on Australian Bishop that has engaged in liturgical abuse resigning.

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
VATICAN CITY, MAY 18, 2005 (VIS) - The Holy Father:
  • Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Linz, Austria, presented by Bishop Maximilian Aichern O.S.B., in accordance with Canon 401, para. 2, of the Code of Canon Law.
Curious,
 
What liturgical abuses did this AUSTRIAN bishop engage in? From the Google search I did, this bishop COMPLAINED about an irregular ordination of WOMEN and said that only MEN could be priests. . .didn’t see any other remarks about any sort of liturgical abuses in his diocese. . .
 
I understand there was a great deal of priest sex abuse in that archdiocese.

Lisa N
 
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Franze:
Here the answer
kath.net/detail.php?id=9677
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Thank you. You beat me to the punch.
 
Administrator:
Thank you. You beat me to the punch.
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Your welcome, I know that a resignation of a bishop means that a lot of things there are bad.
 
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Franze:
I know that a resignation of a bishop means that a lot of things there are bad.
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Not necessarily. Per Canon Law, resignation for reasons of severe illness is also a possibility I believe. And the resignation is at the “request” of the Vatican. If things are truly bad in a diocese, the individual responsible may not necessarily respond to such a “request”.
 
Not only that, it appears first of all that this bishop PROTESTED against the liturgical abuses in the diocese, including a sham “women’s ordination”. Also, the bishop is 73 this year, and if my memory serves me, I believe that bishops usually send in their mandatory age 75 resignation letter anywhere from 18 months before their 75th birthday (BTW, has Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, who HAS turned 75, ever turned in HIS letter? Last I knew, in February he was waffling due to JP2’s “illness”).

I haven’t seen anything that specifically accuses Bishop Aichern of being responsible for the liturgical abuses mentioned on the link. So I hope it’s a case of “normal” resignation and “jumping to conclusions” (with the best of intentions) on the “whyfores”.
 
Well we can turn to Canon Law. The blurb stated that the resignation was in accordance with Canon 401, para. 2, of the Code of Canon Law.

So lets see what Canon 401, para. 2 says.

Can. 401 §2 A diocesan Bishop who, because of illness or some other grave reason, has become unsuited for the fulfilment of his office, is earnestly requested to offer his resignation from office.

So this resignation was due to illness or some other grave reason, and was offered by the Bishop. In other words he wasn’t pulled by the Vatican.
 
Tantum ergo:
(BTW, has Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, who HAS turned 75, ever turned in HIS letter? Last I knew, in February he was waffling due to JP2’s “illness”).
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That was the first question that popped into my head,“What about Bishop Gumbleton?”
 
Yeah, he’s about 4 months “over” 75 now. Also from Detroit, his fellow colleague Adam Cardinal Maida submitted HIS resignation on March 18 (his 75th birthday). Hmmm, a Cardinal is obedient, but a bishop “doesn’t have to be?”
 
Tantum ergo:
Yeah, he’s about 4 months “over” 75 now. Also from Detroit, his fellow colleague Adam Cardinal Maida submitted HIS resignation on March 18 (his 75th birthday). Hmmm, a Cardinal is obedient, but a bishop “doesn’t have to be?”
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This issue is covered by Canon 401, para. 1, which reads…

Can. 401 §1 A diocesan Bishop who has completed his seventy-fifth year of age is requested to offer his resignation from office to the Supreme Pontiff, who, taking all the circumstances into account, will make provision accordingly.

It says that they are requested to offer the resignation.

It doesn’t say that they have to offer it. Odd.

We have a simular case in the Byzantine Catholic Church.

Bishop Andrew of the Eparchy of Passaic is 77 years old. According to Canon 210, para.1, of the Code of canons of Oriental Churchs, he should have sent in his resignation when he turned 75.

Maybe these bishops have sent in their resignations but they have not been accepted as of yet.

I really do not think it is proper for us to read into these situtations.
 
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ByzCath:
We have a simular case in the Byzantine Catholic Church.

Bishop Andrew of the Eparchy of Passaic is 77 years old. According to Canon 210, para.1, of the Code of canons of Oriental Churchs, he should have sent in his resignation when he turned 75.

Maybe these bishops have sent in their resignations but they have not been accepted as of yet.

I really do not think it is proper for us to read into these situtations.
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Cardinal Ratzinger had sent his resignation when had turned 75 but John Paul II had not accepted his resignation.
 
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Sorry about that. I couldn’t pull up the article. I will be good, I promise :o . I also stated the wrong Country! Bishop Aichern is from Austria.

In Peace,
 
Austrian bishop resigns after liturgical-abuse complaints

Vatican, May. 18 (CWNews.com) - Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) has accepted the resignation of an Austrian bishop whose diocese was at the center of complaints about widespread liturgical abuse.

The Vatican announced on May 18 that Bishop Maximilian Aichern had resigned from the Linz diocese, which he had headed since 1982. At 72, the bishop was well short of the mandatory retirement age of 75. The Vatican announcement indicated that his resignation had been accepted under Canon 401/2 of the Code of Canon Law, which refers to “illness or other grave reason” for a bishop’s resignation.

Earlier this year, an investigation by a German-language Catholic news agency, Kath.net, had uncovered serious liturgical abuses in the Linz diocese, with women being encouraged to wear liturgical vestments and lead ceremonies, and prayers offered to “the good shepherdess.” Cardinal Francis Arinze told Kath.net that he was aware of the complaints about abuses, and his Congregation for Divine Worship was “doing what it can to help remove them.”
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JKirkLVNV:
That was the first question that popped into my head,“What about Bishop Gumbleton?”
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After first reading a story (prior to his 75th birthday) from the Toledo Blade in which Bishop Gumbleton suggested that he might not submit his letter of resignation, I later read in another publication (after his birthday) that he had in fact done it.

However, I have since been watching the Vatican news service daily reports and it has not been accepted. It is a dilemma for sure; do you loosen the chain and let a retired Bishop Gumbleton run around the globe unchecked? He does this enough already, even with his responsibilities to the Archdiocese.
 
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After first reading a story (prior to his 75th birthday) from the Toledo Blade in which Bishop Gumbleton suggested that he might not submit his letter of resignation, I later read in another publication (after his birthday) that he had in fact done it.
toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050121/COLUMNIST17/501210338&SearchID=73208639060544

However, I have since been watching the Vatican news service daily reports and it has not been accepted. It is a dilemma for sure; do you loosen the chain and let a retired Bishop Gumbleton run around the globe unchecked? He does this enough already, even with his responsibilities to the Archdiocese.
 
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