Timeline for Can This be a Valid Catholic Imprimatur?
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| Aug 28, 2022 at 2:35 | comment | added | DDS | Thank you for clarifying this for me. | |
| Aug 28, 2022 at 0:24 | comment | added | eques | It does. I said the person who wrote the book would be the author for the purpose of canon law. In other words, if you put someone else's name on it, that doesn't canonically change who may approve it. Furthermore, if you lie or deceive the bishop by claiming you wrote something that someone else actually did (i.e. you hire a ghostwriter), not only would you render the imprimatur invalid if that person lives in a different domicile but you would sin. | |
| Aug 27, 2022 at 22:27 | comment | added | DDS | But doesn't "ghostwriter" mean that the "author's" name printed on the book cover is not the person who actually wrote the book? Hence, if a ghostwriter wrote a book, and the book is submitted for ecclesiastical approval to the diocese of the indicated author, the Imprimatur, if granted, could not be valid since the actual author and his residence is unknown. It's the residence of the author that matters when a book is submitted for ecclesiastical approval outside of the diocese where it is actually published. | |
| Aug 27, 2022 at 21:47 | comment | added | eques | Isn't that what I said? The ordinary of the person who wrote the text has competency or the ordinary where it is published. | |
| Aug 27, 2022 at 21:45 | comment | added | eques | No. It lists distinct possibilities. A diocese administrator would be the ordinary regardless of whether he had previously been the vicar general. The ordinary means the one possessing ordinary as opposed to delegated jurisdiction. A vicar general as stated above uniquely doesn't possess delegated jurisdiction from the bishop and yet is subordinate to him. | |
| Aug 27, 2022 at 21:43 | comment | added | DDS | So, if the indicated author is not really the author--- 2., (I interpret) must then be the local ordinary of the ghostwriter. That's how I read it. | |
| Aug 27, 2022 at 21:41 | comment | added | DDS | Also, regarding my concern over ghostwriters: Please see the bottom of page 7 in the link I previously sent: 6. Who may grant the authorization for written works? Another essential determination a diocesan or eparchial official must make upon receiving a request to approve a written work is whether the diocese or eparchy possesses the competence needed to review the text. In the Latin Catholic Church, the task of granting the required permission or approval belongs to 1. The proper local ordinary of the author 2. The ordinary of the place where the book is to be published. | |
| Aug 27, 2022 at 21:40 | comment | added | DDS | As there can be only one local ordinary in a diocese, am I correct in assuming that, say, a vicar general can be considered to be a (the) local ordinary in the event that the Pope appointed him as a diocesan administrator because the bishop has either retired, resigned, or been removed? | |
| Aug 27, 2022 at 21:35 | comment | added | eques | "Local ordinaries in the Latin Catholic Church are defined in law as diocesan bishops, those who are placed over a particular church or equivalent community (e.g., diocesan administrators), vicars general, and episcopal vicars acting within the scope of their designated responsibilities.42 " | |
| Aug 27, 2022 at 21:34 | comment | added | DDS | I just came across this: According to page 1 (first paragraph) of usccb.org/about/doctrine/publications/upload/… --- it would seem that it is the archbishop (or bishop) who can grant ecclesiastical approval for publishing a book---not an auxiliary bishop or vicar general. The latter statement is but my interpretation. | |
| Aug 27, 2022 at 21:25 | history | edited | eques | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 27, 2022 at 21:22 | comment | added | eques | I'm not clear on how this particular book could have been approved by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati at that time -- I don't see any particular rule which would allow that. Again, I don't see how a ghost writer changes anything. The local ordinary of the author meaning the person who wrote the book not just whose name appears on it. | |
| Aug 27, 2022 at 21:05 | comment | added | DDS | Thank you for posting this informative answer. One reason I inquired about a ghostwriter is because if say, I wrote a book and wanted to submit a book I wrote for an Imprimatur---I only have two choices: (1) The (arch)diocese where I, the author, live; or (2) The (arch)diocese where the book is to be published. Since, the aforementioned book seems to have been published in Erlanger, KY --- it would seem that the author must then have lived within the archdiocese of Cincinnati---which could have been possible, I suppose; but if a ghostwriter is involved---I was wondering if anything changes. | |
| Aug 27, 2022 at 20:37 | history | answered | eques | CC BY-SA 4.0 |