«GIVE US OUR DAILY THEATER TODAY». ALESSANDRO MINUTELLA REMEMBERS HAVING BEEN «TWICE THEOLOGIST AND TWICE GRADUATED», THEN HE ANNOUNCES THAT HE HAS CONFESSED. REQUEST: WHO HAS VALIDLY ACQUITTED HIM?

Minutella cannot be acquitted or receive any valid absolution unless he has retracted his heresies. E, considering that the crimes committed are reserved to the Apostolic See, anyone who acquits him without his prior public retraction, or at least in front of two witnesses in case of life-threatening danger, he would in turn incur excommunication.

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In the days gone by he ended up under the fire of Alessandro Minutella - a priest from Palermo excommunicated then resigned from the clerical state - the disciple of the Servant of God the Father Divo Barsotti, the father Serafino Tognetti, "guilty" of having fulfilled his priestly duty by dissuading some people who questioned him from following this subject on the path of serious error. As always happens in these cases he is back in charge with his old mantra:

«I remind our brother Father Tognetti that Don Minutella is a theologian twice, I have two degrees in theology …».

It's time to clarify - obviously without going into the merits of the internal sacramental and extra-sacramental forum - some fundamental points to those simple people not familiar with certain ecclesiastical dynamics:

a) our, although he proclaims himself a dogmatic theologian, it is not so, having never achieved “degrees” in theology at the faculty of theology but in spirituality at the Institute of Spirituality of the Pontifical Gregorian University;

b) between one “degree” in theology (Faculty of Theology) and one in spirituality (Institute of Spirituality) there is the difference between a degree in medicine and one in nursing.

But most of all, it is always appropriate and right to clarify to non-experts that thea “degree in theology” it doesn't really exist as a title in ecclesiastical universities and that our academic titles are as follows:

1) canonical baccalaureate in theology, released later 5 year old, basic qualification equivalent for the State to a university diploma first level or so-called “three-year short degree”;

2) specialist license, released later 2 O 3 year old, a title which, added to the theological baccalaureate, is equivalent for the State to a master's degree diploma;

3) PhD, released after a minimum of at least two years, with which the title of doctor is conferred, equivalent for the State to a PhD, but not always though, it is sometimes recognized as equivalent to a postgraduate master's degree; the doctorate in theology is recognized as equivalent to the doctorate, in canon law, in biblical sciences, in philosophy, in history … however not all those other new branches considered "preparatory" or "marginal", among these spirituality.

Having clarified all it is good to remember that, when proven by the facts, the two vaunted degrees - which are non-existent according to the degrees and qualifications awarded by universities and ecclesiastical universities - were used by us to obtain these extraordinary results:

a) incur excommunication automatic by schism (can. 1364 – § 1);

b) incur automatic under excommunication for heresy (cann. 1364-1365);

(c)) incur sententiae penalties in dismissal from the clerical state with a decree issued personally by the Roman Pontiff, because he alone can inflict this extreme punishment imposed only in very rare and very serious cases.

In the “Saints and Coffee” column of 4 July, Mister I Am-Twice-Theologian (name) I-Have-Two-Bachelors-In-Theology (last name) he announced Urbi et Orbi to have confessed (!?).

Completely legitimate question: who would have acquitted him, perhaps some of his companions in misfortune were also affected by canonical provisions which strictly forbid the small group of priests following him from celebrating the Holy Mass, preach and administer confessions? By now we know his communication technique well: throw an impressive statement among the others, making it seem absolutely natural in the eyes of those who follow him.

Without — as written earlier — enter the field of the sacramental and extra-sacramental internal forum, as well as in the context of the work of the priest who has received his sacramental confession, it is necessary to intervene on some issues which Minutella himself has made and is making widely publicized.

For some years now Mister I Am-Twice-Theologian (name) I-Have-Two-Bachelors-In-Theology (last name), he obsessively cites canons of the Code of Canon Law, making them say what is not written in them, extrapolating and de-contextualizing them from the entire ecclesiastical legal system, as in the case of can 332 § 2, to whom I will soon dedicate an article on the topic of gift he was born in ministry of the Roman Pontiff.

Very clear and precise canon laws, in particular the can. 1331 § 1 of the C.I.C. the 1983 which prohibits the excommunicated:

1º to celebrate the Sacrifice of the Eucharist and the other sacraments;

2º to receive the sacraments;

3º to administer the sacramentals and celebrate other liturgical worship ceremonies;

4º to have any active part in the celebrations enumerated above;

5º to exercise offices or tasks or ministries or ecclesiastical functions;

6º to take government actions.

§ 2. If he excommunicates her sententiae penalties was inflicted or that automatic was declared, the offender:

1º if you want to act against the provisions of § 1, NN. 1-4, must be removed or the liturgical action must be interrupted, unless there is a serious cause to the contrary;

2º invalidates government acts, which pursuant to § 1, n. 6, they are illegal;

3º is prohibited from making use of the privileges granted to him previously;

4º does not acquire salaries held in a purely ecclesiastical capacity;

5º is incapable of holding office, assignments, ministry, functions, rights, privileges and honorific titles.

To an excommunicated person who has not made amends of his crimes against the Church and the deposit of faith it is forbidden to receive the Sacraments and if a bishop or presbyter it is forbidden to administer them. In fact, how the schismatic heretic caused public scandal, in the same way, in the desirable case he wishes to repent and receive the remission of a sin whose absolution is in itself reserved to the Apostolic See (cf.. can. 1354 §2; art. 52 of the Apostolic Constitution Good Pastors), he will equally have to publicly abjure his mistakes. I just know, for real life and death reasons it was not possible to make public statements, in that case the confessor is authorized to absolve also from crimes reserved to the Apostolic See; however, he will have to call two witnesses and have the heretic recant before them, apostate and schismatic before granting him absolution in article died.

In accordance with canon laws, Mister I Am-Twice-Theologian (name) I-Have-Two-Bachelors-In-Theology (last name) he cannot therefore be acquitted or receive any valid absolution unless he has retracted his heresies. E, considering that the crimes committed are reserved to the Apostolic See, anyone who acquits him without his prior public retraction, or at least in front of two witnesses in case of real danger to life, he would in turn incur excommunication automatic (cf.. can 969; can. 1378 §2 n. 2).

This is what canon laws establish, as opposed to the personal ones of Mister I Am-Twice-Theologian (name) I-Have-Two-Bachelors-In-Theology (last name) and his companions in misfortune, including the inventors of amphibological codes.

Velletri of Rome, 4 July 2024

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