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Other judges, who may be priests, deacons, religious brothers or sisters or nuns, or laypersons, and who must have knowledge of canon law and be Catholics in good standing, assist the judicial vicar either by deciding cases on a single judge basis or by forming with him a panel over which he or one of them presides.
Mary Bastian (1948 – 6 January 1985) was a Sri Lankan Tamil human rights activist and Catholic priest. He was shot and killed along with 10 other civilians on January 6, 1985, during the Sri Lankan Civil War, allegedly by the Sri Lankan Army.
Judge was a long-term member of Dignity, a Catholic LGBT activist organization that advocates for change in the Catholic Church's teaching on homosexuality. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] On October 1, 1986, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued an encyclical , On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons , [ 33 ] which declared ...
The official body appointed by the qualified ecclesiastical authority for the administration of justice is called a court (judicium ecclesiasticum, tribunal, auditorium) Every such ecclesiastical court consists at the least of two sworn officials: the ecclesiastical judge who gives the decision and the clerk of the court (scriba, secretarius, scriniarius, notarius, cancellarius), whose duty is ...
Franco Mulakkal is an Indian prelate of the Latin Catholic Church. He worked as the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jalandhar from 2013 [1] [2] [3] until his arrest in 2018 on charges of raping a nun. [4] He is the first bishop in Indian Catholic to be arrested for being accused in a rape case.
Catholic News Service gave it 44.8%, and the Catholic News Agency gave it 33.3%. Among the religion blogs published by high-circulation U.S. newspapers, those operated by USA Today and The Washington Post contained the most entries on the clergy abuse scandal - a total of 12 each during the six weeks studied.
He served the church for 39 years as a bishop and for 56 years as a priest. He died on 4 November 2017. Augustine was sometimes referred to as the "People's Bishop", and "Bishop of the poor." He was fluent in English, French, Tamil, and Latin. He was a Tamil scholar, as well as a lyricist, poet, writer, singer, pianist, magician and artist.
He died on 9 August 1889, aged 60, [1] [6] and was buried in the churchyard cemetery at St Mary Magdalen’s Roman Catholic Church Mortlake. [1] [7] His wife Alice died in 1926 and is also buried in the churchyard. There is a plaque inside the church in their memory. It was unveiled on 11 August 1989, 100 years after his death. [8]