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This is the homepage
and resource center of
Dr. Edward Peters, an American lay
canon lawyer. Dr. Peters
teaches,
writes,
speaks, and consults on a wide variety of canonical issues
impacting the Church in the United States and around the world.
He currently holds the Edmund Cdl. Szoka
Chair at
Sacred Heart Major Seminary
in Detroit, MI.
It is Dr. Peters' conviction, based
on
many years of study, practical experience,
and teaching
in the field of ecclesiastical law, that Church
laws work to preserve the freedom of the
Holy Spirit. The more Catholics at all levels
in the Church understand
their canonical rights and duties,
the more effectively they can partake in the mission of
the Church, a mission born from and leading to communion
with God and his faithful people. May the materials on
this site further those goals!
Leges
Ecclesiae conservant libertatem Spiritus
Sancti.
Canon Law, the oldest continuously
functioning legal system in the western world,
is the
internal legal system
of the Catholic Church. It affects virtually
every aspect of the faith life of some one
billion Catholic Christians throughout the
world. But, as Pope John Paul II explained when
he signed
the 1983 Code into law, canon law "is in no way
intended as a substitute for faith, grace,
charisms, and especially charity in the life of
the Church and of the faithful. On the contrary,
its purpose is rather to create such an order in
the ecclesial society that, while assigning the
primacy love, grace, and charisms, it at the
same time renders their organic development
easier in the life of both the ecclesial society
and the individual persons who belong to it."
See ap. con.
Sacrae disciplinae leges, para.16.
