“Does jurisdiction flow like a river from a spring – such that if the spring stops, so does the river?”
Did you ever answer the below question in a follow-up essay?
But is it possible, in the absence of a reigning Roman Pontiff, for a man to accede to a diocesan see – and thus the attain the ordinary jurisdiction attached to it?
We shall consider this in the following part.
Did you ever answer the below question in a follow-up essay?
But is it possible, in the absence of a reigning Roman Pontiff, for a man to accede to a diocesan see – and thus the attain the ordinary jurisdiction attached to it?
We shall consider this in the following part.