Sunday, June 7, 2009

Dominique Bouhours


Fr. Dominique Bouhours, S.J. was a French Jesuit and etymologist.
He was born in 1628 at Paris and died in 1702.
He entered the order of Jesuits at sixteen
and became professor of grammar and rhetoric at Paris and Rhouen.
In 1666 he returned to Paris as tutor to Colbert's eldest son.

Link (here)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Off topic:Could you explain the news from congregation of the clergy,about laicization of priests,please?

Joseph Fromm said...

The short of it. Priests do abandon their vocation. This new procedure allows the Church to begin the process of sacramentally freeing the priest in order that he may be able to participate in other sacraments.

When a Catholic man leaves his wife he gets a legal divorce, he is however not free of the religious obligation of his previous marriage unless he or his wife petitions and obtains an annulment from the local tribunal. The Church does not free the marriage without a petition and canonical due process.

Priests where treated in the same way. They had to petition to revert back to their original state.

The rule change keeps the renegade priest from participating in sacrilegious ceremonies, with his priesthood still intact.

I'll do a post on the subject.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the answer.

This part I understood.
But from now,a bishop can punish directly a priest?

Joseph Fromm said...

Seems to be a more aggressive position.