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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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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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