Dr. Edward Peters

The Law Before Amoris Is the Law After

Pope Francis blesses a family Sept. 19 during a special audience with participants at a meeting for the new evangelization in Paul VI hall at the Vatican (CNS photo/Tony Gentile, Reuters) Holy Communion is to be withheld from divorced-and-remarried Ca­tho­lics in virtue of Canon 915 which, as has been explained countless times, does not [...]

Little Patience for “Law”

Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio washes and kisses the feet of residents of a shelter for drug users during Holy Thursday Mass in 2008 at a church in a poor neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNS photo/Enrique Garcia Medina, Reuters) Francis has consistently characterized the law and lawyers as “pharisaical,” but societies — and [...]

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