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Analysis: Will bishops push for clarity on the synod’s procedural rules?

October 13, 2018 Catholic News Agency 5

Vatican City, Oct 13, 2018 / 06:13 pm (CNA).- Recent changes to canon law have left some bishops attending the 2018 Synod of Bishops uncertain about the meeting’s procedural rules. Unanswered questions about the synod’s […]

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The cerberus of clerical sexual misconduct: a canonical overview

October 10, 2018 Edward N. Peters 4

The cerberus of clerical sexual misconduct has three heads: (1) clerical sexual abuse against minors; (2) clerical sexual misconduct with consenting adults; and (3) episcopal complicity in both. Canon law is not the only means […]

Opinion

Why talk of Catholic-Lutheran intercommunion damages Catholic-Orthodox relations

June 3, 2018 Ines Angeli Murzaku 13

If the Catholic Church can and will think of intercommunion, then intercommunion with the Orthodox Churches is the most reasonable, probable, and feasible. […]

Features

Cardinal Eijk, Pope Francis, and problems of governance

May 12, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 14

The basic dynamic of this pontificate is quite clear, and it leaves far too much unclear. […]

General

Why Dr. Rebecca Luckett’s abortion essay is not the “same old same-old”

March 20, 2018 Edward N. Peters 14

Most ‘Yes-I’m-Catholic-but’ attempts at public conscience massaging warrant little consideration and usually no follow-up. But Dr. Luckett’s recent USA Today essay could be an exception. […]

Features

Bishop Paprocki discusses background, decision regarding Sen. Durbin

March 1, 2018 Jim Graves 26

“Senator Durbin was once pro-life,” says the Bishop of Springfield, Illinois. “He changed somewhere along the line.  I hope he comes back to his roots.  […]

The Dispatch

An important week for Eucharistic discipline–or lack thereof

February 23, 2018 Edward N. Peters 13

On Bishop Paprocki, the German bishops, and Holy Communion […]

The Dispatch

Bermuda law again respects reality

February 16, 2018 Edward N. Peters 3

While “domestic partnerships” are recognized in Bermuda, some of which partnerships will make it legally easier for same-sex partners to carry on their common life, […]

The Dispatch

The Bloody 14 and the question of excommunication

January 31, 2018 Edward N. Peters 21

The repeated, though for now misguided, calls for excommunication in these cases, and the repeated, but worth-considering, calls for withholding holy Communion in these cases […]

The Dispatch

Sometimes one side is simply right and the other side is simply wrong

January 26, 2018 Edward N. Peters 13

The Archdiocese of Braga, in Portugal, has reported endorsed Communion for remarried after a period of discernment of about six months. If so, the Archdiocese is wrong—patently […]

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