The Church’s 'state of emergency' is exemplified by this: that for Rome, the only unforgivable sin is noticing there is a problem.

Darrick Taylor

You may have heard the rumors recently that, should the Society of St. Pius X go through with consecrating new bishops in July, the Vatican plans to excommunicate not only the bishops involved, but every single priest of that society as well. You may also know that the leaders of the Society of St. Pius X have appealed to a state of emergency in the Church to justify the consecrations in defiance of Rome’s wishes, stating that the salvation of souls takes precedence over obedience to the Holy See. The Vatican denies this, seeing only disobedience and, apparently, the intention to start a “new” church in the proposed consecrations; it is this charge of schism, of intending to break away, which is the given reason for the excommunication.

What I find interesting in this dispute is the whole notion of a “state of emergency.” I do not know if it has a specific meaning in canon law, about which I am wholly ignorant, but I do know that it is largely a political term of art, referring to when the normal workings of government, the constitution, are suspended or some sort of calamity has rendered their operations null and void. It has a history in civic legal systems, but alas, I am ignorant of those as well. Perhaps there is some esoteric reason for it that I am simply too ignorant to understand, but the assertion that the Church is obviously not in a state of emergency seems—well, it seems deranged to the point of madness, as of someone who is suffering a psychotic break with reality.

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