UPDATE: Can Voter Lobbying Groups Use ‘Catholic’ In Their Names? Bishops May Have To Decide

[Michie]

(OSV News) — Amid this year’s contentious presidential election, a number of organizations actively courted Catholic voters, who were considered to be among the election’s decisive constituencies.

Several such groups were those that boasted the word “Catholic” in their names, despite not being official church entities. This appropriation of the word “Catholic” may exploit what one canon law scholar described to OSV News as a “blind spot” in canon law, the Catholic Church’s principal legislative code.

Father John Paul Kimes, a Maronite Catholic priest and fellow in canon law at the University of Notre Dame’s de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, told OSV News that canon law requires organizations formed by Catholics to obtain ecclesiastical permission in order to use the word “Catholic” in its name.

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UPDATE: Can voter lobbying groups use ‘Catholic’ in their names? Bishops may have to decide - OSV News

(OSV News) -- Amid this year's contentious presidential election, a number of organizations actively courted Catholic voters, who were considered to be among the election's decisive constituencies. Several such groups were those that boasted the word "Catholic" in their names, despite not being...

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[chevyontheriver]

(OSV News) — Amid this year’s contentious presidential election, a number of organizations actively courted Catholic voters, who were considered to be among the election’s decisive constituencies.

Several such groups were those that boasted the word “Catholic” in their names, despite not being official church entities. This appropriation of the word “Catholic” may exploit what one canon law scholar described to OSV News as a “blind spot” in canon law, the Catholic Church’s principal legislative code.

Father John Paul Kimes, a Maronite Catholic priest and fellow in canon law at the University of Notre Dame’s de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, told OSV News that canon law requires organizations formed by Catholics to obtain ecclesiastical permission in order to use the word “Catholic” in its name.

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UPDATE: Can voter lobbying groups use ‘Catholic’ in their names? Bishops may have to decide - OSV News

(OSV News) -- Amid this year's contentious presidential election, a number of organizations actively courted Catholic voters, who were considered to be among the election's decisive constituencies. Several such groups were those that boasted the word "Catholic" in their names, despite not being...

www.osvnews.com

The National Catholic Reporter keeps getting away with it.