Analysis

The Maltese disaster

January 13, 2017 Edward N. Peters 3

The bishops of Malta, in a document that can only be called disastrous, repeatedly invoking Pope Francis’ Amoris laetitia, have directly approved divorced and remarried Catholics taking holy Communion provided they feel “at peace with God”.  Unlike, say, the Argentine document on Amoris which, […]

General

A canonical primer on popes and heresy

December 16, 2016 Edward N. Peters 1

No one in a position of ecclesial responsibility—not the Four Cardinals posing dubia, not Grisez & Finnis cautioning about misuses, and not the 45 Catholics appealing to the College, among others—has, despite the bizarre accusations made about some of […]

Analysis

Cardinals in the Church have rights too

November 29, 2016 Edward N. Peters 0

The rashest reaction to the “Four Cardinals’ Five Dubia” so far is that from Bp. Frangiskos Papamanolis, President of the Bishops’ Conference of Greece, whose railing against the questions posed by Cdls. Brandmüller, Burke, Caffarra, and Meisner in […]

Analysis

Time to head off confusion in Canada

October 4, 2016 Edward N. Peters 0

Regarding the Christian burial of suicides the Pio-Benedictine Code differed from the Johanno-Pauline Code in that the former law expressly listed suicides as among those “public and manifest sinners” ineligible for ecclesiastical burial (1917 CIC 1240), while […]