Really?? I didn't know that. We could lend some Italian canons: we have plenty of them. Each small town has at least a chapter of canons in its cathedral. I think it is a nice way of rewarding elderly priests to make them canons, so to give them at least an important role, even if they can't work anymore: they can and must pray for the whole diocese!
Why are there no canons in America?
ReplyDeleteNo canons? What about those great Canons Regular of Premontre, the Norbertines of St. Michael's Abbey?
ReplyDeleteThey wear rochets too.
Did not a Council of Baltimore declare there would be no cathedral chapters of canons in the U.S.A. in the nineteenth cent?
ReplyDeletethere are canons in the usa
ReplyDeletevisit the canons regular of st john cantius in chicago
www.canons-regular.org
www.cantius.org
www.sanctamissa.org
Cathedral Canons, Scott. Not the same thing as Canons Regular!
ReplyDeleteReally?? I didn't know that. We could lend some Italian canons: we have plenty of them. Each small town has at least a chapter of canons in its cathedral.
ReplyDeleteI think it is a nice way of rewarding elderly priests to make them canons, so to give them at least an important role, even if they can't work anymore: they can and must pray for the whole diocese!