Jeanie Hannaman

By Kathy Schiffer, National Catholic Register - Have you ever heard of St. Homobonus?... Omobono Tucenghi (also called “Homobonus,” which means “good man”) was a 12th-century tailor from the town of Cremona, on the bank of the Po River in northern Italy. He was a married layman who inherited a large estate from his father, a successful tailor and merchant... Homobonus was humble and generous, believing that God had permitted him to be successful in business so that he might donate a large proportion of his income to help the poor.

By Kennedy Hall, Crisis Magazine - First, the act of consecrating bishops without permission is not, according to Canon Law, automatically penalized with a charge of schism, although Canon Law does have provisions wherein a jurist could decide to apply a charge of schism to said penalty. Second, the Code does provide for a case of necessity, clearly so. And we cannot argue that consecrating without permission is intrinsically evil because the practice of consecrating vis-à-vis permission from Rome has undulated throughout the centuries (if it were intrinsically evil, it would never have been permissible). ...