Table title
The table title (Latin titulus mensae ) used to be used in the German-speaking area when a Catholic secular priest had to promise before his ordination that he would be provided for materially, even if he could no longer exercise his priesthood. This was usually done through the promise of a foundation or a wealthy person to provide for his maintenance.
Before the church tax was collected by the state through the Reich Concordat concluded in 1933 and as a result of which the priests were funded by the diocesan bishop similar to civil servants , the table title provided that the diocese or the local church community would not have to maintain several priests, if one would be incapacitated. For this reason, older priests were often assigned a parish curator. In this case, the pastor and curator had to share the income.
The titulus mensae was anchored in church law until 1983. Only in the new Codex iuris canonici does it no longer appear.
Web links
Table title in Herder's Conversations Lexicon . Freiburg im Breisgau 1857, Volume 5, p. 486.
literature
- Johann Georg Wörz: The table title for secular priests in the province of Tyrol and Vorarlberg , Wagner, 1846 online at googlebooks
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Heim: From indulgence to celibacy: small encyclopedia of church history , CH Beck, 2008, p. 403