Written by Dr. Ed Peters, Canon Lawyer
Popes on planes aren’t supposed to be a setting from which to draw fodder for canon law essay exams, but as far back as Pope Benedict XVI, such flights have occasioned more than their fair share of papal words or actions carrying canonical implications but undertaken with little apparent advertence to canon law.
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Last month, in an interview published in emol.com, Podest and Ciuffardi, picked to serve on the cabin crew for the papal visit, talked about their civil marriage from some eight years ago (which they had been too busy to convalidate), and stated that they “both hope that in January this delayed [wedding] plan can finally take place on the plane and be officiated over by none other than Pope Francis himself. ‘We would like it. This is our place, our second home, it is where we feel secure.’” *
C’mon, someone was obviously planning something. It would be interesting to know who and what.
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Not sure of all the Canon Law associated with the Pope’s blessing this marriage but it did serve as very good PR. The couple probably went to confession prior to the blessing, we are not told.
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