155: Defrocked, Laicized or Suspended: Defining our Catholic Terms [Podcast]
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Dr. Taylor Marshall
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🗓️ 10 September 2018
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So what happens to priest when they get in trouble if you've been following the scandal coming from the Pennsylvania grand jury report even going back to McCarick and now with the allegations released by Archbishop Veegano. |
| 0:15.0 | We have all these people on Twitter, Facebook, mostly saying these men need to be |
| 0:20.0 | defrapped. |
| 0:22.0 | Then people have been asking, well what does that mean? |
| 0:25.0 | You'll also see the word |
| 0:26.7 | leisization and you also see suspension or suspended a divinies. |
| 0:31.0 | And a lot of people are asking what are these words mean and how does all of this work and how do we get bad bishops or bad priests or even bad deacons |
| 0:40.1 | ejected from pastoral care. |
| 0:42.8 | And so today I want to look at the three words that we see the most common, |
| 0:46.4 | that is the word defrocked, leisization, |
| 0:49.7 | and suspended a divinis. |
| 0:52.0 | We're going to look at Canon Law |
| 0:53.5 | and find out what these words mean. |
| 0:55.9 | Now, in Canon Law, there's really only two categories. |
| 1:00.2 | There's being removed from the clerical state, this is called Laiacization, |
| 1:05.0 | and then there's suspension or suspended Odovines. |
| 1:08.0 | There is no canonical term for def. Frock. |
| 1:13.0 | D.Frock is actually a term that goes way back hundreds of years. |
| 1:16.5 | It refers to the frock. |
| 1:18.5 | A frock is a dress, a gown or robes. |
| 1:21.5 | And so when a priest is defrocked, |
| 1:24.2 | he's no longer allowed to wear the robes, |
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