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Intratext ct is the hypertextualized text together with wordlists and concordances. In june 2019, the vatican uploaded a new and apparently updated version of the code of canon law to its website. In the process, however, every single link to every single canon has been changed. (!) this means that in all the articles on this site which predate this change, the links to. i went to confession about half an hour ago and im still upset by the experience. Its not something i would normally discuss on these forums, but what the priest said after i confessed disturbed me deeply. Here are some of his words as best i can remember them i went on sabbatical recently and consulted with other priests about masturbation. 2352 by masturbation is to be understood the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure. Both the magisterium of the church, in the course of a constant tradition, and the moral sense of the faithful have been in no doubt and have firmly maintained that masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely. as we have seen countless times before in this space, canon law follows theology. 1 , which is worded in a very theological way, echoes the same sentiments clerics are bound to observe perfect and perpetual continence i. , refraining from sexual relations for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. 2383 the separation of spouses while maintaining the marriage bond can be legitimate in certain cases provided for by canon law. before i explain why the church cannot marry the impotent, i want to outline exactly what the church teaches on this subject. Antecedent and perpetual impotence to have intercourse, whether on the part of the man or the woman, whether absolute or relative, nullifies marriage by its very. If one definition of masturbation can be self-stimulation limited to self-gratification that is incapable of any generative possibility, then that is exactly what the vatican is exercising with ever-greater vigor and enthusiasm - against jesuit theologian roger haight, and elizabeth johnson, c. , against american nuns for their preferential charitable efforts in favor of the. Publishing these sources we would like to give a better access to them for canon law researchers, for english speaking orthodox clergy as well as for orthodox christian believers. Most of the texts you are going to read here are compared to several sources, nevertheless they are to be used very carefully because they represent a working.