With regard to the faculties and powers of pastors, those of parish-priests are sufficiently defined by the law, and hence are ordinary, not delegated. This provision of the Council of Trent is sometimes by particular enactments applied in the selection of candidates for the office of irremovable rectors, as happens in the United States (Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, tit. xviii, de Ref) candidates for the office of parish-priest should (a few cases excepted) pass a competitive examination ( concursus). Moreover, according to the Council of Trent (Sess. Among the candidates possessed of the necessary qualifications the appointment should fall on the one who is best fitted for the office. The power to appoint pastors is ordinarily vested in the bishop. xiii), and for the United States in 1886 (Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, n. Another such was the institution of irremovable rectors (pastors with the right of perpetuity of tenure), ordered for England in 1852 (First Provincial Council of Westminster Decr. One such measure was the erection of quasi-parishes, districts with defined limits, ordered for the United States in 1868 (Second Plenary Council of Baltimore, n. In places, therefore, where the Tridentine law cannot be fully carried out, bishops adopt measures which fulfil this requirement as nearly as circumstances allow. xiii, de Ref.) shows it to be the mind of the Church that dioceses should, wherever it is possible, be divided into canonical parishes (See PARISH), to be governed by irremovable parish-priests. 418.) This, certainly, is the case in the United States of America (Decrees of Propaganda, 28 March, and 20 May, 1887). iv Smith, "Elements of Ecclesiastical Law", n. Pierantonelli, "Praxis Fori Ecclesiastici," tit.
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Moreover, according to some canonists, even movable pastors in case of a criminal charge cannot be absolutely removed from their office without a trial (cf.
(See IRREMOVABILITY.) A movable pastor or rector is one whose office does not give him this right but the bishop must have some just and proportionate reason for dismissing or transferring him against his will, and, should the priest believe himself wronged in the matter, he may have recourse to the Holy See, or to its representative where there is one having power in such cases. An irremovable pastor or rector is one whose office gives him the right of perpetuity of tenure that is, he cannot be removed or transferred except for a canonical reason, viz., a reason laid down in the law and, in the case of a criminal charge, only after trial. Pastors (whether parish-priests or not) are either irremovable ( inamovibiles) or movable ( amovibiles ad nutum). In this article "parish- priest" is always taken in this strict sense. A pastor is properly called a parish-priest ( parochus) when he exercises the cure of souls in his own name with regard to a determined number of subjects who are obliged to apply to him for the reception of certain sacraments specified in the law. This term denotes a priest who has the cure of souls ( cura animarum), that is, who is bound in virtue of his office to promote the spiritual welfare of the faithful by preaching, administering the sacraments, and exercising certain powers of external government, e.g., the right of supervision, giving precepts, imposing light corrections powers rather paternal in their nature, and differing from those of a bishop, which are legislative, judicial, and coactive. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99.
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