A member of any kind of representative body (including but not limited to a parliament) within Christendom, is obliged to represent his constituents insofar as they represent a Catholic conscience.
So, if a General chapter of the Dominicans is electing Gerard Timoner III in 2019, not every Dominican priest was present when this happened, but each convent elected a priest to a national chapter first, actually they would be called provincial chapters and do not always concide with nation states, the province of Dacia being all of the Nordic countries, and then each national chapter elected priests or at minimum a priest for the general chapter. However, it is not foreseeable that each Dominican in the whole world was to have an enlightened opinion on Gerard Timoner III, rather the Dominicans present at the general chapter represented the conscience of national chapters and of convents insofar as these are Catholic consciences.
Now, the Dominican order was founded in 1215 and approved by the Pope in 1216. Magna Carta, which would have some importance for the work of Chris Coghlan, MP, at least conceivably, was signed in 1215.
No one would have agreed that a representative of commoners could have voted for legalising Endura, just because he came from a village infested with Catharism. Fortunately for England back then, no village of England was infested with Catharism, and no MP would have voted for the Endura. Indeed, when it comes to helping some out of this life, the English parliament of 1401 preferred to vote somewhat excessive powers for somewhat amateurish inquisitors, namely that bishops rather than Dominicans should conduct enquiries about heresy. The law De haeretico comburendo (yes, English laws were written in Latin back then) stipulated that bishops were free to conduct en enquiry about heresy as they wanted, even in cases where it could lead to the heretic being burned. Lollards could be targetted and were. In 1430, Beauvais and Rouen were under English rule, so St. Joan was tried under this system and burned in Rouen after trial by the bishop of Beauvais. Some other French cities were under English rule, and Waldensians were burned there, Arras, I think, probably the latest burning of Waldensians in France. But Endura always remained illegal, in England, and some parts of France where it had been treated as legal were returned to law and order by one Simon of Montfort. Early 1200's, not early 1400's.
The representant does not represent the opinion of his constituents, whether an English municipality or two (Dorking was apparently not the only one), he represents a Catholic conscience as it may relate to specific issues that relate to his constituents, or to the country in general. If a proposed tax reform would have very unfair effects in Dorking, Chris Coghlan is bound in conscience to oppose it, he can't let it pass with no comment, let alone vote for it, because that would be letting people in Dorking down. But if Dorking had had 90% Cathars, Chris Coghlan had no business to vote for Endura, and if Dorking has 90 % secularists who approve of abortion, contraception and assisted dying, Chris Coghlan has no business voting for any of them, including the one at hand, assisted dying.
Obviously, this process has in England been hijacked by first the Reformation, then Secularisation. Since Chris Coghlan professes to be a Catholic, he has no more right to vote for assisted dying than for continuing the Penal Laws. Nor do the actual Secularists or formerly those actual toxic Protestants back in 1830 were not OK with repealing the Penal Laws. But unlike Chris Coghlan, they had and have no priests to tell them so. Chris Coghlan has.
Speaking of Dorking and Dominicans, some English speaking Dominicans are dangerously ecumenic with the world view of Richard Dawkings, wonder if his last name was once spelled Dorkings, in England these have long been pronounced the same. Gerard Timoner III, OP, has no business allowing English or American Dominicans to promote pre-Adamite quasi-human populations, doesn't he have a Pope to tell him so?
Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Octave of the Nativity
of St. John the Baptist
1.VII.2025
Octava Nativitatis sancti Joannis Baptistae.
PS, Credits to Christine Niles for accessing the triple tweet of Chris Coghlan, on the video He Threw a Tantrum After Being Denied Holy Communion | FORWARD BOLDLY/HGL
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