College of Cardinals Flashcards
what document did JPII reform the Curia?
Pastor Bonus 1988
Which canon explains the role of the college of cardinals? In general what does it say
Can. 349 The cardinals of the Holy Roman Church constitute a special college which provides for the election of the Roman Pontiff according to the norm of special law. The cardinals assist the Roman Pontiff either collegially when they are convoked to deal with questions of major importance, or individually when they help the Roman Pontiff through the various offices they perform, especially in the daily care of the universal Church.
what are the three orders of carindals?
Cardinal Bishops
Cardinal Priests
Cardinal Deacons
What are Cardinal Bishops?
They have a title to a suburbicarian see adjacent to Rome without exercise of Jurisdiction.
What are Cardinal Priests
Assigned a titular church in Rome, but no active jurisdiction
What are Cardinal Deacons
assigned a diaconia in Rome
Can you move from Cardinal Deacon to Priests, to Bishops.
Yes, but not Bishop
How long as a Cardinal Deacon before becoming a Cardinal Priest?
10 years
what is the status of the College of Cardinals?
a public collegial juridic person.
Who is the dean of the college
Primus inter pares, elected by caridnal bishops and approved by Pope, ordains new pope a bishop if necessary, to be domiciled in rome.
Who is the vice Dean?
fills in for the dean when necessary.
How many cardinals should elect the Pope?
120 but this is not fixed, the Pope can determine more.
what must a cardinal have?
outstanding in doctrinal exertise, moral character, prudence and peity. Usually a bishop
Two types of nomination of carindals
publicized in secret consistory of cardinals
in pectore nomination
what is an in pectore nomination?
only known to the Pope, revealed only later.
