The Dispatch

Legalism, Old and New

May 11, 2017 Russell Shaw 1

In case you didn’t notice, Pope Francis thinks legalism is a bad thing—and that’s good news. For legalism, correctly understood, is opposed to authentic morality. The Pope returned to this theme, a favorite of his, […]

Analysis

Fake canon law goes on goin’ on

April 22, 2017 Edward N. Peters 3

Fr. James Keenan writing in Crux this week makes his own a question raised (last July, it seems) by Rocco Buttiglione in L’Osservatore Romano: “Is there any contradiction between the popes who excommunicated divorced and remarried persons and Saint John […]