Answers to Correspondents

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 30, 2 August 1923, Page 25

Answers to Correspondents

Sport. —Mr. Irish, the owner of the Derby winner, was an Englishman. Papyrus was ridden by Steve Donoghue, whose third successive Derby victory it was. Another jockey once rode four winners in five years without equalling Steve’s record. Carawock is the (Connacht) phonetic pronunciation of the Irish word ccarrbhac, meaning “gambler.” In Munster it is popularly pronounced “carook.” Shandre is an abominable misspelling of sliandree, which phonetically represents scan draoi , or wizard. Will that be all this time, Mister? M. M. —Your letter on the harmlessness of draughts re-' ceived and marked “read.” Don’t write to us on the subject again. We are experts. After seven years of life in a draught in Dunedin there is nothing wo do not know about the nuisances and about the folly of trying to escape them except by getting into a lead coffin under six feet of earth. We quite agree that they are harmless if you are fond of chills, neuritis, neuralgia, toothache, rheumatism, and lumbago. And we do not believe in microbes at all, at all. Inquirer. The following quotation from Father Slater, S.J., answers your query fully; “The chief effect of excommunication has always been expulsion from the Church, deprivation of mem- , • bership -in the divine society founded by Jesus Christ. While this general effect has been constant, minor . details connected with it have varied somewhat at , . different periods of the Church’s history. I subjoin a summary of the effects of excommunication according to the new Code of Canon Law, Canon 2259 ff. “(a) An excommunicated person is deprived of the right to assist at the divine offices of the Church, or at those religious functions which require the power of Orders, and can only be exercised by clerics, such as Mass or Benediction, but not sermons. \ k'i' (b) He is deprived of the use of the Sacraments and , sacramentals. . “(c) If a priest, he is forbidden in general to administer the Sacraments. . “(d) He loses the right to indulgences, suffrages, ' and the public prayers of the Church, The faithful, however, may pray privately for him, and priests are ‘ not forbidden to say Mass 'for him privately and with- . out giving scandal. But if the excommunicated person was excommunicated by name and others were com- . manded to avoid him, Mass can only be offered for his, conversion. “(e) An excommunicated person is forbidden to , exercise eccleciastical offices and functions; to hold posts in ecclesiastical courts; to act as sponsor in Baptism and Confirmation; and to vote in ecclesiastical elections. “(f) He is forbidden to exercise any act of ecclsiastical jurisdiction, whether of the internal or of the . external forum. (g) He is forbidden to elect, present, or nominate to ecclesiastical posts; he cannot acquire ecclesiastical ! , dignities, offices, or benefices; nor can he bo promoted to Orders. ■, . ■. . ■ ; The‘Church punishes many serious offences, such as joining secret societies and marrying in the rotes- ; tant Church, by excommunication.” 1