tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3709087743016851805.post4900208349749177788..comments2010-02-28T22:23:48.674-06:00Comments on Tom Roeser: Thoughts While Shaving: Catholic Tea Party’ers Sh...Jakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11195261008177966339noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3709087743016851805.post-47561516841816373422010-02-28T22:23:48.674-06:002010-02-28T22:23:48.674-06:00"The USCCB’s not a canonical thing"
http://www.vat..."The USCCB’s not a canonical thing"<br />http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P1L.HTM<br /><br />CHAPTER IV. CONFERENCES OF BISHOPS<br /><br />Can. 447 A conference of bishops, a permanent institution, is a group of bishops of some nation or certain territory who jointly exercise certain pastoral functions for the Christian faithful of their territory in order to promote the greater good which the Church offers to humanity, especially through forms and programs of the apostolate fittingly adapted to the circumstances of time and place, according to the norm of law.<br /><br />Can. 448 §1. As a general rule, a conference of bishops includes those who preside offer all the particular churches of the same nation, according to the norm of ⇒ can. 450.Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01963814784426416189noreply@blogger.com