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Pistrina's complete rebuttal/refuation of Anthony Cekada's "The Validity of Ordination Conferred with One Hand" can be found by clicking on the title below:
A Spanish translation of the above document is available here. The same document is available here in PDF format.
The letter signed by the nine priests categorically affirming a 1976 one-handed ordination may be found by clicking here: September 1990 letter; and "One Hand's" reply may be found here: October 5, 1990, reply.
And for new eyewitness testimony to the fact that a one-handed ordination took place on June 29, 1976, click here for the post "Anniversary Special."
The letter signed by the nine priests categorically affirming a 1976 one-handed ordination may be found by clicking here: September 1990 letter; and "One Hand's" reply may be found here: October 5, 1990, reply.
And for new eyewitness testimony to the fact that a one-handed ordination took place on June 29, 1976, click here for the post "Anniversary Special."
I am not one in the Dolan camp but I've searched in vain for a reference to this historical fact on this website. Pope St. Leo the Great went from deacon to bishop without ever being a priest. In fact the Roman practice was often to appoint deacons to bishops just to get rid of the deacon. Archdeacons held the purse strings and so "promoveatur ut amoveatur" was invented. I discovered this fact by "Googling the Leo the Great story" and found a cross-related article of the Great Nephew of English poet William Wordsworth. John Wordsworth was Anglican Bishop of Salisbury and he wrote this piece in 1909 on per saltum ordinations: http://anglicanhistory.org/england/jwords/saltum.html
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DeleteWe did not discuss individual historical cases, but in section XXII, pp. 23-25, we presented the opinions of theologians on the question of whether the episcopacy itself is sufficient.
I didn't realize Sanborn was one of the signees of the Kelly letter.
ReplyDeleteTo anonymous on on per saltum ordinations, using Anglican sources, sounds dubious at best. Will have to research Leo the Great's alleged elevation of a deacon. Thought that the Summa Theologica, Supplement, Question 40, Article 5, Reply 2, put the situation to rest.
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