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What Boudway gets wrong about indissoluble marriages

October 25, 2017 Edward N. Peters 8

The Catholic Church does not teach that “all valid marriages are indissoluble”. She teaches, more precisely than Matthew Boudway grasps, that all valid marriages are […]

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Good stories tell the whole story

October 20, 2017 Edward N. Peters 12

No canon of the 1983 Code bans parents from sacramental celebrations involving their children and no canon authorizes priests to exclude parents from such sacred […]

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A corrective to some of Prof. Buttiglione’s recent assertions about canon law

October 6, 2017 Edward N. Peters 6

Buttiglione has misunderstood and/or misrepresented some important, if this time more subtle, canonical points in his recent critique of the Correctio Filialis. […]

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On arguments that may be, and sometimes must be, made

October 5, 2017 Edward N. Peters 15

To the extent that some qualified signatories and/or supporters of the Correctio have realized a duty (expressed in law) to address these matters, they are not simply […]

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Fr. James Martin, S.J., and accusations of heresy

October 2, 2017 Edward N. Peters 48

Fr. Martin’s rebuff of heresy accusations suggests that either he does not know or does not wish to acknowledge that “heresy” is not limited to the actual contradiction of […]

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Francis was never pope? Call me unpersuaded.

September 28, 2017 Edward N. Peters 28

While Universi Dominici Gregis is special law for a special event, it is not independent of the rest of canon law; it must be read in […]

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Scholars, clergy sign letter accusing Pope Francis of “upholding heretical positions”

September 24, 2017 Catholic News Agency 38

SSPX head Bishop Bernard Fellay is among the letter’s signatories, who call it a “filial correction.” […]

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Notes for Australian Catholics regarding the ‘same-sex marriage’ postal vote

September 20, 2017 Edward N. Peters 9

Insofar as good citizenship is a moral duty for all Catholics, our conduct as citizens, including our casting a ballot, has moral implications; we are […]

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On Fr. James Martin’s book and canonical approval

September 16, 2017 Edward N. Peters 25

To tout a religious superior’s imprimi potest as proof of one’s personal or authorial orthodoxy is to misconstrue what that certification is and what it means. […]

The Dispatch

Are we reading the same Code?

September 14, 2017 Edward N. Peters 7

Mary McAleese, a former president of Ireland who has a background in canon law, misrepresented what Church law states about the legitimacy of children born out of […]

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