{"id":6958,"date":"2004-06-24T11:38:18","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T16:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/06\/24\/canon-law-and-priests-running-for-public-office\/"},"modified":"2004-06-24T11:38:18","modified_gmt":"2004-06-24T16:38:18","slug":"canon-law-and-priests-running-for-public-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/06\/canon-law-and-priests-running-for-public-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Canon Law and Priests running for public office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\">Due to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/archives\/004857.php\">post<br \/>\nbelow<\/a> some were  wondering<br \/>\nabout priests running for public office. Here is the relevant section in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/archive\/ENG1104\/_INDEX.HTM\">Code<br \/>\nof Canon law<\/a> (1983).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articles\">Can. 285 &sect;1. Clerics are to refrain completely<br \/>\nfrom all those things which are unbecoming to their state, according<br \/>\nto the prescripts<br \/>\nof particular law. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&sect;2. Clerics are to avoid those things which, although<br \/>\nnot unbecoming, are nevertheless foreign to the clerical state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&sect;3. <strong>Clerics are forbidden to assume public offices<br \/>\nwhich entail a participation in the exercise of civil power.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&sect;4. Without the permission of their ordinary,<br \/>\nthey are not to take on the management of goods belonging to lay persons<br \/>\nor secular offices which entail<br \/>\nan obligation of rendering accounts. They are prohibited from giving surety<br \/>\neven with their own goods without consultation with their proper ordinary.<br \/>\nThey also are to refrain from signing promissory notes, namely, those through<br \/>\nwhich they assume an obligation to make payment on demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the post below some were wondering about priests running for public office. Here is the relevant section in the Code of Canon law (1983). Can. 285 &sect;1. Clerics&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}