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Is the ‘Petrine Privilege’ an exception to Church teaching on the indissolubility of marriage?

January 16, 2018 Edward N. Peters 5

Comprising a very small portion of all the marital cases dealt with by the Church world-wide, recent Petrine cases follow complex procedures that evolved in […]

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Is the ‘Pauline Privilege’ an exception to Church teaching on the indissolubility of marriage?

January 10, 2018 Edward N. Peters 8

Answering that question requires clarity on some basic marriage concepts and terms. […]

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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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