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Overview

This page organizes most of my canonical writings according to individual canons and/or some special topics. Each entry consists of three parts: a citation to the writing and, where possible, a link to it; a summary of its content introduced by a square (▪ ); and, a short list of other significant canon(s) or topic(s) mentioned in the writing introduced with a carrot (>).

Using this page

Search entries by word(s) and relevant canon number(s). For example, to find my writings on resignation, search for "resignation" and for "Canon 187"; to find my writings on heresy, search for "heresy" and for "Canon 751."

Note on Code revisions

As promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 1983 the Code of Canon Law consisted of 1,752 sequentially numbered canons. Over the ensuing decades John Paul himself (two canons), Benedict XVI (five canons), and Francis (scores of canons) modified, to greater or lesser degrees, many of these provisions. While revising law is a necessary part of any legal system the haphazard way that canon law is being changed causes confusion for scholars and practitioners.

At present, canons remaining as they were when first promulgated are simply listed as 1983 CIC XXXX; canons textually modified but retaining their original numbers are listed as Promulgating document XXXX; finally, canons both textually modified and renumbered are listed as Promulgating document XXXX olim c. XXXX, with "c." being short for 'original canon of the 1983 Code'.

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• Peters' Blog, 3 sep 2019, here. ▪ Canon law is not a collection of ideals but a system of provisions meant to be observed. > Canonistics. Conclave. Electors. Francis. John Paul II. Universi. Ordering of reason.

• Peters' Blog, 10 oct 2017, here. ▪ Canon law is at the service of ecclesiology and not vice versa. > Canonistics. SDL. Vatican I. Gasparri. Francis.

• Peters' Blog, 13 apr 2017, here. ▪ Canon law informs pastoral practice. > Canonistics. Ivereigh. de Souza. Wuerl. Amoris laetitia. Pastoral practice. Canon 915.

• Peters' Blog, 27 jan 2017, here. ▪ Footnotes in ecclesiastical documents sometimes carry substantive import. > Canonistics. Amoris laetitia. Scanlon. Optatam totius. Veritatis splendor.

• Peters' Blog, 19 sep 2006 (2), here. ▪ The Code of Canon Law is not "divinely inspired" though some canons rest on divinely inspired assertions. > Canonistics. Sacrae disciplinae leges. Canon 924. Canon 1024.

• Edward Peters, "Retrospectives on the first three years of Francis pontificate", Inside the Vatican (March 2016) 32, pdf here. ▪ Francis shows little interest in canon law most of the time and hostility toward it the rest of the time. > Antinomianism. Francis' governing. Burke. Kasper. Mandatum rite.

• Peters' Blog, 28 oct 2015, here; also in Christifidelis 33/7 (29 nov 2015) 3. ▪ Canon law is not, and never has been, "the frame of reference for the Church". > Antinomianism. Wuerl. Francis.

• Peters' Blog, 20 sep 2013, here. ▪ Small-minded canons are eventually eliminated and great-minded canons should be upheld. > Canonistics. 1917 CIC 718.

• Peters' Blog, 31 aug 2012, here. ▪ Burke discusses respect for canon law as an aspect of Church's pursuit of holiness. > Kenya. New Evangelization.

Francis' governing.

• Peters' Blog, 27 apr 2014, here. ▪ Rep Hamilton might not care about what the pope says or does but plenty of other people do care. > Francis' governing.

• Peters' Blog, 24 apr 2014, here. ▪ The latest HSPO statement about what is and is not papal magisterium is less troubling than earlier statements. > Francis' governing. Lombardi.

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1983 CIC 0002. Liturgical law.

• Edward Peters, "Liturgical law: the last labyrinth", Adoremus Bulletin (Sep 1996) 3, text here. ▪ Liturgical law, not being codified, is difficult to research and apply. > Canon 2. Canon 846. Gasparri.

1983 CIC 0006. Abrogation of certain earlier laws by the Code.

• Peters' Blog, 15 sep 2006, here. ▪ There is no canonical requirement that women wear a head-covering in Mass. > Canon 6. 1917 CIC 1262. Chapel veils.

• Edward Peters, curator, The 1917 or Pio-Benedictine Code of Canon Law in English Translation with Extensive Scholarly Apparatus, (Ignatius, 2001) xxxv + 777 pp., info here. ▪ As titled. > Canon 6. Canon 21, Canon Law Digest. Gasparri. Pius X. Benedict XV.

1983 CIC 0008. Promulgation of universal and particular law.

• Peters' Blog, 24 aug 2017, here. ▪ The appearance of the Buenos Aires Letter in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis does not confer magisterial authority on it. > Canon 8. Magisterium. Canon 915. Divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics. Canon 916. Amoris laetitia. Vatican website.

1983 CIC 0016. Authentic interpretation of law.

• Peters' Blog, 02 apr 2005, here. ▪ Survey of John Paul II as Legislator. > Canon 16. 1983 Code. Eastern Code. = Conclave.

1983 CIC 0017. Understanding of law.

• Peters' Blog, 05 jan 2018, here. ▪ Appeals to the "mind of the Legislator" supposedly found in Amoris laetitia would not support admission of divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics to holy Communion. > Canon 17. Canon 915. Two fora. Walford.

1983 CIC 0019. Filling gaps in law.

• Edward Peters, "Accidental parricide in the Ius Novissimum: how canonical commentary mitigated rigorous law", Ephemerides Theologicae Lovaniensis 83 (2007) 339-358, pdf here. ▪ By explicitating evidentiary and procedural assumptions in a papal decree canonical commentary effectively blunted its harsh strict-liability language. > Canon 19. Canon 6. Canon 17. Approved authors. Homicide. King David. Lucius III. Parricide. Gratian analysis. Decretal analysis.

1983 CIC 0023. Limited recognition of custom.

• "Edward Peters, "Altera opinio de consuetudine", Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 34/3-4 (Fall-Winter 2012) 49, pdf here. ▪ A parish is not a community capable of receiving law and conduct by a pastor does not bind a future pastor. > Canon 23. Custom. Canon 24. Canon 25. Canon 1241.

1983 CIC 0085. Definition of dispensation.

• Peters' Blog, 01 dec 2017, here. ▪ Analysis of a purported dispensation issued by a pastor. > Canon 85. Canon 1245. Canon 1246.

• Peters' Blog, 24 oct 2014, here. ▪ Correcting a number of misleading comments suggesting, among other things, 'dispensing' adulterers to continue in adultery. > Canon 85. Faris. CCC 2384. Firm purpose of amendment. Merely ecclesiastical law. Divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics. Divine law.

1983 CIC 0125. Various factors vitiating various acts,

• Peters' Blog, 03 may 2006, here. ▪ Are some episcopal ordinations so illicit as to suggest grounds to question their validity? > Canon 125. Canon 124. Pascite 1382=. Canon 1026. Communist China. Mormon baptism. CDF. Excommunication. Affirmative defenses. Pascite 1341. Canon 845.

1983 CIC 0130. Two fora.

• Peters' Blog, 19 oct 2016, here. ▪ As proportionalism wrongly took "proportional weighing" of good and evil as the sole criterion for moral decision-making so some are wrongly taking "internal forum" as the sole criterion for administration of holy Communion. > Canon 130. Internal forum. Kasper. Canon 916. Canon 916. Canon 912. Principle of Double Effect.

• Peters' Blog, 20 nov 2015, here. ▪ The "internal forum" is not the 'forum of conscience' and external acts must be assessed in the external forum. > Canon 130. Internal forum. Divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics. Canon 1085. Canon 915. Canon 916. Wijlens. Urrutia.

1983 CIC 0144. Ecclesia supplet.

• Peters' Blog, 22 feb 2007, here. ▪ The concept of 'Ecclesia supplet' applies only to jurisdiction not to sacramental matter, form, and so on. > Canon 144. Hoffman. Btw: Hoffman corrected his position, The Catholic Answer (Sep/Oct, 2007) 24.

1983 CIC 0145. Definition of ecclesiastical office.

• Peters' Blog, 04 feb 2013, here. ▪ Explanation of levels of arch/diocesan administration. > Canon 145. Pascite 1395. Canon 375. Canon 475. Canon 476. Canon 482. Canon 473. Ministry. Canon 492. Canon 484. Fugee. Newark.

• Peters' Blog, 02 apr 2012, here. ▪ Election of a gay activist in 'same-sex marriage' to parish council in Austria requires careful sorting. Canon 145. Canon 149. Canon 536. Seifert.

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1983 CIC 0205. Criteria for 'full incorporation' into the Church.

• Peters' Blog, 20 dec 2018, here. ▪ Excommunication does not cause a Catholic to cease being Catholic. > Canon 205. Baptism.

• Peters' Blog, 11 aug 2017, here. ▪ Ivereigh's labeling Christians coming into full communion as “converts” and his denigrating several such men as “neurotics” is a misuse of sacramental terminology and a violation of charity. > Canon 205. Baptism. Douthat. Hitchens. Olson. Pentin. Reno. Schmidtz. Westen.

• Peters' Blog, 11 nov 2009, here. ▪ Tobin’s response to Kennedy is excellent. > Canon 205. Abortion.

• Peters' Blog, 14 jul 2007, here. ▪ The CDF statement "Ad catholicam profundius" is not a controversial document. > Canon 205. ecclesiology. Canon 364. Canon 908. Canon 1183.

• Peters' Blog, 27 may 2007, here. ▪ Pro-abortion Catholics are still Catholic, just bad ones. > Canon 205. Lumen gentium. Canon 915. Brown. Formal defection.

1983 CIC 0208. Fundamental equality of the faithful.

• Peters' Blog, 14 sep 2017, here. ▪ McAleese is wrong to suggest that canon law discriminates in favor of ‘legitimate’ against ‘illegitimate’ children. > Canon 208. McAleese. Canon 877. Legitimacy. Canon 1137.

1983 CIC 0209. Obligation to maintain communion.

• Edward Peters, "Canon law and apotemnophilia", Ethics & Medics 36/2 (Feb 2011) 3-4, pdf here; to be reprinted. =. > Canon 209. Communion. Amputation. Physicians. Moral decision-making.

• Peters' Blog, 06 jul 2015, here. ▪ A Catholic woman married to a pastor might want to make clear in personal musings that she makes public whether she is married in the eyes of the Church. > Canon 209. Canonical form. Fallen-away.

• Peters' Blog, 07 apr 2015, here. ▪ Rod Dreher stands in peril of his soul. > Canon 209. Schism. Lumen gentium. Communion. Confession.

• Peters' Blog, 27 apr 2009, here. ▪ Glendon is living Canon 209 and Canon 225. > Notre Dame. Jenkins.

1983 CIC 0212. Basic rights and duties.

• Peters' Blog, 05 oct 2017, here. ▪ The Correctio Filialis falls squarely within the bounds of Canon 212. > Canon 212. Amoris laetitia. Francis.

• Peters' Blog, 29 nov 2016 (1), here. ▪ Pinto's reported comments about Francis stripping the 'Four Cardinals' of their office was a serious over-reaction. > Canon 212. Papamanolis. Amoris laetitia. Canon 351. Universi Dominici. Canon 145. Canon 1405. Canon 221. Canon 331. Canon 375. Trump. Ginsburg.

• Peters' Blog, 06 oct 2017, here. ▪ Buttiglione improperly assails the Correctio Filialis. > Canon 212. Canon 915. Canon 916. Cohabitation. Scandal.

• Peters' Blog, 26 mar 2015, here. ▪ Nichols' chastisement of priests signing a thoroughly orthodox statement of Church teaching is thoroughly inappropriate. > Canon 212. England.

• Peters' Blog, 24 feb 2014, here. ▪ Reckless public speculation on theological novelties by persons of various ranks in the Church is hurting real people who lack the ability to distinguish the sound from from the unsound. > Canon 212.

1983 CIC 0222. Obligation to assist with needs of the Church.

• Peters' Blog, 16 aug 2018, here. ▪ Assessment of calls to withhold donations to Church. > Canon 222. Canon 1256. Canon 1260. Canon 1261. Canon 1262.

1983 CIC 0223. Regulation of rights.

• Peters' Blog, 01 apr 2020, here. ▪ More assessment of various provisions set out or proposed for dealing with COVID. > Canon 223. Confession. General absolution. Suspension of faculties. Suspension of sacraments. Canon 968. Canon 969. Canon 975. Canon 974. Technology-assisted Confession. ‘TRO’. Canon 57. Recourse. Canon 221.

• Peters' Blog, 30 mar 2020, here. ▪ Assessment of several provisions set out or proposed for dealing with COVID. > Canon 223. Confession. Anointing. Baptism. Minister. Suspension of sacraments. Canon 878. Canonical form. Canon 1116.

1983 CIC 0231. Lay ecclesiastical employees.

• Peters' Blog, 10 mar 2010, here. ▪ Wuerl's decision to drop "spousal benefits" for all lay persons employed by the archdiocese seems an imprudent over-reaction to DC legislation requiring 'spousal benefits' to same-sex couples. > Canon 231. 'Same-sex marriage'. Sawina.

1983 CIC 0273. Clerical respect and obedience.

• Peters' Blog, 16 oct 2011, here. ▪ Mediation means many things but most of them are not appropriate for the Zurek-Pavone dispute. > Canon 273. Excardination. Suspension.

• Peters' Blog, 29 sep 2011, here. ▪ Whatever its ‘news-worthiness’ the Zurek-Pavone dispute is disciplinary in nature and needs to be treated as such. > Canon 273. Canon 205.

1983 CIC 277. Clerical continence and celibacy.

Note: While some of my discussion of clerical continence occurs in writings listed on this page most of my treatment of this issue appears at E. Peters, wbp The canonical obligation perfect and perpetual continence binds all Western clerics, here.

• Peters' Blog, 21 may 2018, here. If Sarah described the ordination of "viri probati" as a serious breach with tradition he is mistaken; the Synod of the Amazon should consider simplex priests. > Canon 277. Canon 764. Canon 966. Canon 232.

• Peters' Blog, 10 dec 2015, here. ▪ Possible discussion of married clergy by the next Synod of Bishops should competently treat clerical continence, clerical celibacy and Eastern observances. > Canon 277. Eastern Churches. Trullo. Magister.

• Peters' Blog, 15 jan 2015, here. ▪ Distinguishing continence, celibacy, and chastity. > Canon 277. Marriage.

• Peters' Blog, 14 jan 2015, here. ▪ Analysis of news article from the Philippines that botches in nearly every way imaginable the concepts of celibacy and continence. > Canon 277. Canon 1394=. Pascite 1395.

• Peters' Blog, 01 may 2014, here. ▪ 'Optional celibacy' is a misnomer and clarity of terms will help discussion of celibacy be carried on more accurately. > Canon 277. Brazil.

• Peters' Blog, 03 mar 2013, here. ▪ Bad reporting and episcopal circumlocutions are making the Cdl O'Brien case harder to asses. > Celibacy. Canon 277. Vow. CCC 2357. CCC 2120. Sacrilege.

• Peters' Blog, 25 mar 2008, here. ▪ Zimbabwe prelate violated his obligation of continence not his obligation of continence. > Canon 277. Ncube. Mugabe.

• Peters' Blog, 18 nov 2014 (2), here. ▪ It seems that the more Roman rhetoric defends clerical celibacy the more Roman policy detracts from it. > Canon 277. Eastern clergy.

• Peters' Blog, 10 apr 2014, here. ▪ Francis' comments that celibacy is "merely disciplinary" and therefore can be changed is true but misleading in that many crucial aspects of Catholic life, including the Sunday obligation, all religious institutes, most of the liturgy, and the College of Cardinals, are also "merely disciplinary". > Canon 277. Francis' governing.

• Peters' Blog, 19 jan 2011 (2), here. Public discussion of my thesis regarding clerical continence is focusing nearly entirely on the sacrament of Matrimony to the exclusion of considering the sacrament of holy Orders. > Canon 277.

• Peters' Blog, 19 jan 2011 (1), here. Martens' essay in America magazine against me is a sustained attack consisting of false attribution, ad hominem arguments, and serious distortions of reasoned views. > Canon 277.

• Peters' Blog, 03 nov 2009, here. ▪ HSPO has issued a non-note note regarding incoming Anglican ministers. > Canon 277. Celibacy. Pastoral Provision.

1983 CIC 0285. Clergy conduct.

• Peters' Blog, 24 aug 2015, here. ▪ A priest who walks around naked in a school is not suitable for pastoral ministry and should face consequences for such action. > Canon 285. O'Toole. Holy Orders. Canon 284. Canon 1389=. Pascite 1395. CCC 2351.

• Peters' Blog, 30 apr 2013, here. ▪ An American priest who 'sneaks' into the US did not experience what it is like to be an illegal alien. > Canon 285.

• Peters' Blog, 29 apr 2009, here. ▪ A priest wearing a Nazi arm band should be precepted out of such conduct if not expelled from the clerical state. > Canon 285. Canon 49. Pascite 1321. Canon 290. Idi.

1983 CIC 0290. Loss of the clerical state.

• Peters' Blog, 16 jan 2008, here. ▪ So-called 'functional laicization' does not exist and the term only confuses discussion of a wayward priest's status. > Canon 290. Fushek. Phoenix. Dwyer. Dippre. Laicization. Administrative leave. Incardination.

1983 CIC 0300. Restrictions on the use of the word 'Catholic'.

• Peters' Blog, 18 mar 2010, here. ▪ Naumann is right to challenge Keehan's endorsement of governmental abortion funding and her rejection of the position of the USCCB raises questions about how the Catholic Health Association is authorized to use the word "Catholic" in its title. > Canon 300. Abortion.

• Peters' Blog, 17 dec 2010, here. ▪ Fullam does not understand that canonical authority does not rest on civil law. > Canon 300. Canon 22. Canon 216. Pascite 1319. Olmsted. Hospital. Phoenix.

1983 CIC 0330. Peter and the Apostles as models for popes and bishops.

• Peters' Blog, 08 jun 2016, here. ▪ Weigel's critique of Ganswein's 'bifurcated papacy' theory is excellent. > Canon 330. Pius IX. Cum Romanis Pontificibus. Francis.

1983 CIC 0331. Papal supremacy.

• Peters' Blog, 20 oct 2017 (2), here. ▪ An informed 'conservative Catholic' is both an ecclesial monarchist and an ecclesial collegialist. > Canon 331. Francis' governing. Mullarkey. Amoris laetitia. Canon 336. Two foci.

• Peters' Blog, 18 feb 2016, here. ▪ Reactions to several comments made by Francis in a papal presser. > Canon 331. Francis' governing. Presser. Paul VI. Contraception. Congo. Trump. Baptism. Canon 204. Lesser of two evils. Abortion. Evil. Crime. Border. Wall. Vatican City State. 'Same-sex marriage'. Same-sex union. Celibacy. Continence.

• Peters' Blog, 17 jun 2016 (1), here. ▪ Francis is recklessly wrong to claim that the great majority of Christian marriages are null. > Canon 331. Francis' governing. Matrimony. Validity. Kasper. Contract. Cohabitation. Canonical form.

• Peters' Blog, 24 jan 2016, here. ▪ Silence about something is hardly good evidence of one's support for that something. > Canon 331. Francis' governing. Allen. Mercy. March for Life. Italy's Family Day. Abortion. Faculties. Korean abortion memorial. Canonical form.

• Peters' Blog, 21 feb 2016, here. ▪ Francis wrongly invokes a (probably non-existent) precedent from Paul VI to suggest a change in Church teaching on contraception. > Canon 331. Francis' governing. Humanae vitae. Congo case. Balkan nuns. Infallibility. Allen. Formal logic.

1983 CIC 0332. Acquisition and loss of papal power.

• Peters' Blog, 05 sep 2018, here. ▪ Advice from clergy to laity to tone down their criticism of Church leaders for the latters' response to the clergy sexual misconduct crisis is ill-offered. > Canon 332. de Souza. Clergy sexual misconduct. Canon 187. Canon 1740. Canon 401. Canon 212. Vigano. Francis. Benedict XVI. John Paul II. Rosica.

• Peters' Blog, 01 oct 2014, here. ▪ Medieval norms suggesting that bad Latin can vitiate the force of a document were more concerned that such errors raised questions about authenticity and, in any event, were not carried in codified law. > Canon 332. Canon 10. Lucius III. Ad audientiam. Benedict XIV. Decretal analysis.

• Peters' Blog, 11 feb 2014, here. ▪ Where I was when I learned Benedict had resigned. > Canon 332.

• Peters' Blog, 13 feb 2013, here. ▪ Survey of authors on eligibility to be elected pope. > Canon 332. Catholic baptism. Vacant see.

• Peters' Blog, 09 feb 2005, here. ▪ Thoughts on the possibility that John Paul II might resign. > Canon 332. Canon 331.

• Edward Peters, "The next papal conclave: Universi Dominici gregis", This Rock (Oct 1996) 30-31, pdf here. > Canon 332.

1983 CIC 0342. Synod of Bishops.

• Peters' Blog, 22 may 2014, here. ▪ The 2014 Synod on Marriage would do well to consider abolishing canonical form, reforming the annulment process, and distinguishing between same-sex unions and 'same-sex marriage'. > Canon 342. Canon 915. Canon 1108. Canon 1671. Canon 1055. CCC 2384.

1983 CIC 0349. Basic provision on office of cardinal.

• Peters' Blog, 28 sep 2017, here. ▪ Analysis of some claims that Francis is not really pope. > Canon 349. Benedict XVI. Resignation. Canon 10. Universi Dominici. Canon 17. Conclave.

• Peters' Blog, 13 jan 2015, here. ▪ Canizares Llovera's suggestion about raising the number of papal electors is preferable to popes simply ignoring their own limit; Paul VI's suggestion that the Synod of Bishops and Eastern Patriarchs might be included in conclaves is worth examining. > Canon 349. Universi. Siri.

• Peters' Blog, 06 jan 2015, here. ▪ Antinomianism in the Church is advanced by ecclesiastical leaders ignoring norms they find inconvenient. > Canon 349. Francis. Electors. Universi. John Paul II.

• Peters' Blog, 17 mar 2013, here. ▪ Benedict XVI's resignation and the conclave that elected Francis have highlighted several questions on papal abdication and the mechanics of conclaves that needs addressing. > Canon 332. Canon Canon 349. Universi. Electors. O'Brien. Dar.

• Peters' Blog, 28 feb 2013, here. ▪ Eligibility of excommunicated cardinal for conclave participation. > Canon 349. Canon 1331. Canon 1314. Universi. Canon 171. Electors. Canon 1405.

• Peters' Blog, 21 feb 2013, here. ▪ HSPO statements on deciding the start date of the conclave are open to misinterpretation; putting off possible reconciliation with the SSPX until the next pope makes good sense. > Canon 349. Universi.

• Peters' Blog, 25 sep 2005, here. ▪ Papal electors violating their oath of secrecy are subject only to such penalties as might be determined by the incoming pontiff. > Canon 349. Universi. Brunelli. Pascite 1399.

• Peters' Blog, 03 feb 2005, here. ▪ An ineligible papal elector would not have nullified the election of a pope. > Canon 1391. Conclave. Gulbinowicz. Canon 171. Canon 349.

1983 CIC 0360. Roman curia.

• Peters' Blog, 17 jun 2016 (4), here. ▪ Curial changes of papal remarks is a distortion of the truth. > Canon 360. Roman Curia. Allen. Papal Presser. Francis. Orwellian. Marriage. Nullity.

• Peters' Blog, 30 jun 2009, here. ▪ L'Osservatore Romano is incompetent in its attempts to be a player on the international journalism scene. > Roman Curia. Canon 360. Jackson. Prayers for the deceased. Obama.

• Peters' Blog, 12 sep 2015, here. ▪ Debates over Church teaching about the relationship between morals and doctrine are ill-served by taking Italian formulations of these concepts as dispositive. > Canon 360. Roman curia. Smith. Synod of Bishops. Humanae vitae. Latin.

• Peters' Blog, 26 feb 2015 (2), here. ▪ If Baldisseri removed pro-marriage mailings from Synod members' mailboxes he will have, besides committing various canonical and civil crimes, confirmed nagging suspicions that Roman officers censor mail they do not like. > Canon 360. Synod of Bishops. Roman Curia. Canon 1389=.

• Peters' Blog, 08 may 2014 (2), here. ▪ Kasper’s claim that the Francis believes that half of all marriage are invalid is too significant and too startling for Lombardi’s ‘no comment’ policy to suffice. > Canon 360. Canon 1060.

1983 CIC 0377. Selection of bishops.

• Peters' Blog, 19 feb 2017, here. ▪ The ecclesial values behind refusing to grant civil governments a voice in episcopal appointments are weighty. > Canon 377. Par in parem. China. Zen. Christus Dominus. Concordat. Weigel. Francis.

• Peters' Blog, 29 nov 2016 (2), here. ▪ Granting states, especially totalitarian states, a voice in who is nominated or appointed a bishop in their territories is to compromise the Church's hard-won independence in this matter. > Canon 377. Communist China. Jie. Weigel. Zen. Christus Dominus. Francis.

• Edward Peters, "Confidential consultations in the selection of bishops: law and practice", Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 34/1 (Spring, 2011) 59-63, pdf here. ▪ Explanation of the scope and observance of pontifical secrecy in regard to consultations about candidates for the episcopacy. > Canon 377. Canon 378. Pontifical secrecy. Canon 212. Renken. Secreta continere.

1983 CIC 383. Pastoral care for various groups.

Deaf ministry.

• Peters' Blog, 03 jan 2008, here. ▪ Correctives to several of the more serious errors McNamara made about deaf issues in liturgical and ecclesiastical life. > Canon 383. Deaf ministry. Canon 213. Canon 214. Ogden. ASL. LSQ. NCOD. Blake. Canon 826. Canon 838. Canon 1029. Bibliography suggestions.

1983 CIC 0386. Bishop as preacher and teacher.

• Peters' Blog, 05 sep 2017, here. ▪ Cupich confuses basic moral uprightness with professed Christian faith. > Canon 386. Canon 205. Lumen gentium.

1983 CIC 0387. Bishop as sanctifier.

• Peters' Blog, 02 feb 2010, here. ▪ Arguments against Hubbard's approval of a needle distribution program for drug abusers. > Canon 387. Canon 1389=. Pascite 1326. Moral analysis. Principle of double effect. CDF. USCCB. Araujo.

1983 CIC 0391. Types of powers of the bishop.

• Peters' Blog, 10 jan 2013, here. ▪ Abrogation of arch/diocesan legislation. > Canon 391. Canon 26. Fewer laws. Madison. Morlino.

1983 CIC 0392. Bishop to enforce and be vigilant about ecclesiastical laws

• Peters' Blog, 14 dec 2016, here. ▪ The Atlantic Episcopal Assembly (Canada) offers seriously deficient comments on sacramental questions surrounding state-sanctioned suicide. > Canon 392. Dreher. Penance. Anointing. Eucharist. CCC 2281. CCC 2325. Halligan. Cappello. CCC 2120.

• Peters' Blog, 01 dec 2014, here. ▪ Cupich is, at this point, non-committal on the question of withholding holy Communion from pro-abortion Catholics. > Canon 392. Canon 915. O'Donnell. Canon 392.

• Edward Peters, "Five things every bishop needs to know about canon law", Catholic Dossier (May-Jun 2001) 30-34, pdf here. ▪ Canon law reflects sound ecclesiology that fosters episcopal authority. > Canon 392.

1983 CIC 0401. Episcopal resignation.

• Peters' Blog, 05 nov 2014, here. ▪ Francis' new norms on episcopal resignation change very little;

note that removals of some bishops raises serious questions. > Canon 401. Canon 402. Canon 411. Canon 189. Canon 450. Burke. Speculum iustititae.

1983 CIC 0436. Authority of a metropolitan.

• Peters' Blog, 10 feb 2010, here. ▪ Options for responding to Hubbard's needle distribution program. > Canon 436. Canon 212. USCCB. Canon 455. CDF.

1983 CIC 0438. 'Patriarch' and 'primate' as honorary titles.

• Peters' Blog, 23 mar 2006, here. ▪ Benedict XVI’s relinquishment of the title “Patriarch of the West” could > Canon 438. Primate. Episcopal conferences. Allen.

1983 CIC 0460. Definition of a synod.

• Peters' Blog, 11 feb 2020, here. ▪ Limitations on competence of a diocesan synod. > Canon 331. Canon 336. Canon 460. Clergy sexual misconduct. DeVille.

1983 CIC 0532. Juridic affairs of the parish.

• Peters' Blog, 07 feb 2013, here. ▪ Assessment of gun policy in parish setting. > Canon 532. Canon 515. Canon 381. Canon 1205. Kresta. Subsidiarity. Gun.

1983 CIC 0576. Basic Church authority over evangelical counsels.

• Peters' Blog, 13 dec 2013, here. ▪ The "Legion of Christ" should be dissolved and the good people associated with it invited, according to their states in life, into authentic Catholic institutions. > Canon 576.

1983 CIC 0584.

• Peters' Blog, 30 apr 2009, here. ▪ Dunnigan's article on the debacle that is the Legion of Christ is worth reading. > Canon 584.

1983 CIC 0604. Consecrated virginity.

• Peters' Blog, 05 jul 2018, here. ▪ Analysis of Ecclesiae Sponsae Imago and its muddled treatment of issues surrounding virginity. > Canon 604. Instruction. Virginity.

• Edward Peters, "Toward reform of the first criterion for admission to the order of virgins", Studia Canonica 48 (2014) 467-491, pdf here. ▪ The Rite of Consecration of Virgins contains some anomalous, and probably incorrect, criteria for assessing the eligibility of women for consecration. > Canon 604. Virginity. Conscience.

1983 CIC 0648. Time limits for novitiate.

• Peters' Blog, 04 nov 2013, here. ▪ How lengthening the period of novitiate would notably improve the prospects of a successful religious vocation is not clear. > Canon 648. Canon 653. Canon 655. Canon 657. Quay.

1983 CIC 0696. Optional dismissal from religious life.

• Peters' Blog, 12 oct 2016, here. ▪ Dismissal from an institute on the grounds of scandal should follow religious women attempting a 'same-sex marriage'. > Canon 696. Canon 1055. Canon 1088. Canonical form. Canon 694.

• Peters' Blog, 26 oct 2009, here. ▪ Options for responding to Quinn’s role as escort for mothers arriving at abortion clinic to kill their children. > Canon 696. Canon 695. Canon 1398=. Pascite 1329. Canon 1369=. Canon 1408. Canon 1412. Akin. AmericanPapist. Sinsinawa Dominicans.

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1983 CIC 0747. Right of the Church to proclaim Gospel and social principles.

• Peters' Blog, 15 dec 2105, here. ▪ Magisterium is identified by objective, not subjective, criteria. > Canon 747. Lombardi. Homily. Faith and morals. Francis. Pontifical Commission for Relations with Jews. Koch. Ordinary magisterium. Intentionality. Akin. Labels.

Ad tuendam 0750. Secondary objects of infallibility.

• Peters' Blog, 17 jun 2019, here. ▪ Assertions condemning the death penalty might run afoul of infallible Church teaching upholding its liceity in principle. > Canon 750.

• Peters' Blog, 25 oct 2017 (1), here. ▪ Analysis of Fastiggi's critique of Feser regarding capital punishment. > Canon 750. Infallibility. Secondary object. Francis. Magisterium. Sententia communis. CCC 1259. Ad tuendam. Canon 1371=.

• Peters' Blog, 11 jul 2017 (2), here. ▪ Whatever the truth behind rumors that Humanae vitae is being ‘reconsidered’ it probably represents infallible Church teaching and so is irreformable. > Canon 750. Paul VI. Infallibility. Secondary object. Ordinary magisterium. Ford. Grisez. Kelly. Garcia de Haro. Conjugal relations. William May.

• Peters' Blog, 12 apr 2016, here. ▪ The ordinary magisterium is by its nature more difficult to spot in practice and, given the ease of spotting extraordinary exercises thereof, is both under-recognized and over-valued. > Canon 750. Extraordinary magisterium. Infallibility. Francis.

• Peters' Blog, 24 nov 2015 (2), here. ▪ Ordinatio sacerdotalis makes its key assertion infallibly and does not simply reflect an infallible true assertion. > Feser. Infallibility. Lumen gentium. Ratzinger. O'Connor. Divorce. CCC 2383. Canon 1024.

• Peters' Blog, 11 sep 2013, here. ▪ The infallible assertion in Ordinatio sacerdotalis is about ecclesiology, not women, and not orders. > Canon 1024. Ecclesiology. Gabriel. Canon 750.

1983 CIC 0751. Definitions of heresy, schism, and apostasy.

• Peters' Blog, 22 aug 2019, here. ▪ Orientation to a heresy inquiry. > Canon 751. Heresy. CCC 395. CCC 2851. Canon 1412. Canon 1717. 1917 CIC 2315. Devil. Excommunication. Automatic penalty. Sosa.

• Peters' Blog, 30 jan 2019, here. ▪ Andrew Cuomo cannot be correctly accused of heresy on the grounds of his pro-abortion activity. > Canon 751. Heresy. Canon 915. Pascite 1364. Pascite 1368 olim 1983 CIC 1369. Excommunication. Automatic penalty.

• Peters' Blog, 02 oct 2017, here. ▪ Martin misconstrues the notion of heresy. > Canon 751. Heresy. Smith. Hitchens. Canon 751. 'Same-sex marriage'. Infallibility. Pascite 1364. Canon 1371=. CCEO 10. 1917 CIC 1325. Canon 209.

• Peters' Blog, 13 sep 2016, here. ▪ Mirus overstates an evidentiary point in a defense of Francis against accusation of heresy and wrongly inserts notion of venial sin in assessing one's eligibility for holy Communion. > Canon 751. Heresy. CCC 1393. Canon 915. Canon 916. CCC 2384. Venial sin. Divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics. Proof. Conduct.

• Peters' Blog, 13 dec 2015, here. ▪ Cupich does not meet the canonical criteria for heresy. > Canon 751. Heresy. Automatic penalty. Antinomian. Evidence from conduct.

• Peters' Blog, 02 nov 2015, here. ▪ "Suspicion of heresy" was a category of offense under the 1917 Code that was dropped from the 1983 Code. > Canon 751. Heresy. 1917 CIC 2314. Heresy. Woywod. Cloran. Primary object. 1917 CIC 1325.

• Peters' Blog, 7 nov 2018, here. ▪ Distinguishing 'vertical' schism from 'horizontal'. > Canon 751. Schism. Burke.

• Peters' Blog, 04 mar 2017, here. ▪ A pope might be provoke a schism but he cannot be in schism himself. > Canon 751. Schism. Francis. Heresy. Pascite 1364. Burke.

• Peters' Blog, 18 jun 2007, here. ▪ A deacon who becomes a Mormon has apostsized from the CHurch. > Canon 751. Canon 194. Formal defection. Pascite 1364. Excommunication. Dismissal. Review of When Mormons Call.

• Peters' Blog, 20 dec 2005, here. ▪ Bozek’s conduct has resulted in or is headed toward penalties of suspension, interdict, excommunication, and dismissal from the clerical state. > = Pascite= schism =. Burke. Leibrecht. Contumacy.

1983 CIC 0752. Religious submission of intellect and will.

• Peters' Blog, 17 aug 2018, here. ▪ Even if an "ordinary papal Magisterium" exists it does not demand religious submission of intellect and will. > Canon 752. Capital punishment.

• Peters' Blog, 19 oct 2014, here. ▪ Paul VI and his teaching in Humanae vitae taught more about confidence in the Church than did any other single document. > Canon 752.

1983 CIC 0767. Homilies.

• Peters' Blog, 07 jan 2015, here. ▪ Rev Rutler's comments on homilies and preaching lack precision and offer occasionally misleading advice. > Canon 767. 1917 CIC 1337. 1917 CIC 1348. 1917 CIC 1344. 1917 CIC 1345. Pulpits. Deacons. Knox.

1983 CIC 0797. Parental freedom in regard to state schools.

• Edward Peters, "Canonical responsibilities for public aid to private education", Faith & Reason 16 (1990) 13-22, pdf here, text here. ▪ =

1983 CIC 0803. Authority over and identification of Catholics schools.

• Peters' Blog, 24 sep 2019, here. ▪ Analysis of recourse against bishop revoking Catholic identity of Jesuit high school. > Canon 803. Brebeuf Jesuit Prep School. Pastor bonus. Catholic school. ‘Same-sex marriage.’ Thompson. Verbryke.

• Peters' Blog, 21 jun 2019, here. ▪ A bishop has authority to refuse to allow school to identify itself as Catholic if that school deliberately engages as a teacher one who lives in open defiance of fundamental Church teaching. > Canon 803. Thompson. Brebeuf Jesuit Prep. CNN. 'Same-sex marriage'. Teacher. Catholic School. Canon 300. Canon 806. Paulson. CCC 2284. CCC 2285.

1983 CIC 0804. Ecclesiastical authority to be exercised over Catholic education and teachers.

• Peters' Blog, 14 mar 2018, here. ▪ Divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics are not suitable candidates for teaching positions in Catholic schools. > Canon 804. Canon 145. Canon 149. Canon 915. Canon 1247. Semeraro.

1983 CIC 0832. Special permission for religious publications on religion or morals.

• Peters' Blog, 16 sep 2017, here. ▪ Analysis of Martin's claim that his good standing status as a priest and the ‘Imprimi potest’ accorded to his book “Building a Bridge” guarantees its orthodoxy. > Canon 832. Imprimatur. Nihil obstat. Imprimi potest. Canon 822. Canon 830. Canon 212. CDF. Wilhelm.

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1983 CIC 0838. Levels of authority over liturgy and liturgical texts.

• Peters' Blog, 25 aug 2017, here. ▪ Francis misspeaks when he purports to assert with “magisterial authority” that the "liturgical movement" is "irreversible". > Canon 838. Francis. Liturgical movement. Magisterium. Infallibility. Canon 749. Canon 750. Primary object. Secondry object. CDF Mysterium Ecclesiae. CDF Doctrinal commentary on Ad tuendam.

• E. Peters, wbp Another look at the 'orans' issue, here. ▪ The rubric calling for the celebrant to use the ‘orans’ gesture at the Lord’s Prayer in Mass is anomalous and should be amended. > Canon 838. Canon 2. Pius XII.

1983 CIC 0841. Validity and liceity of sacraments.

• Peters' Blog, 07 nov 2017, here. ▪ Assessment and corrections of muddled thinking concerning 'spiritual reception' of the sacraments. > Canon 841. Baptism. Murzaku. Canon 915. Byzantine. CCC 1259. Valid. Licit. Grave sin. Canon 842. Canonical form.

1983 CIC 0843. Basic eligibility for sacraments.

• Peters' Blog, 05 jul 2017, here. ▪ McGrath simplifies the criteria for participation in the sacraments to the point of misrepresenting them. > Canon 843. External disposition. Internal disposition. 'Same-sex marriage'. Canon 915. Paprocki.

• Peters' Blog, 24 nov 2015 (2), here. ▪ No matter what language or letterhead is used permission for (the overwhelming majority of) divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics to receive holy Communion is a license to sin. > Canon 843. Canon 915. Canon 916. Divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics. Rescript. Confession. Firm purpose of amendment. CCC 2148. Internal forum. Brother-and-sister.

• Peters' Blog, 07 mar 2007, here. ▪ Withholding holy Communion from an Alzheimer patient is wrong. > Canon 843. Canon 912. Canon 915. God Squad. Denial of sacraments. Rights of the faithful.

1983 CIC 0844. Sacramental sharing.

• Peters' Blog, 29 nov 2017, here. ▪ Divorced-and-remarried Orthodox, even if in good faith, are not eligible for holy Communion. > Canon 844. Fastiggi. Amoris laetitia. Divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics. Orthodox. Disposition. Canon 915. Canon 916. CCC 2384. 1996 USCCB Guidelines for the Reception of Communion.

1983 CIC 0846. Use of liturgical books,

• Peters' Blog, 09 may 2009, here. ▪ Lay (i.e., extraordinary) ministers of holy Communion should cease given blessings in the Communion line at Mass. > Precious Blood. Canon 230. Canon 1168. Public health. Swine flu. Canon 838. Canon 846. Canon 1167. Canon 1170. McNamara. Profanation. Liturgical abuse.

• Peters' Blog, 21 nov 2006, here. ▪ The amended translation of "pro multis" in the Canon of the Mass is good but preemptively substituting a better translation of the phrase on one's own (even if priestly) authority is wrong. > Canon 846. Sacrosanctum Conclium. Portia. Merchant of Venicue.

1983 CIC 0849. Baptism.

• Peters' Blog, 21 nov 2019, here. ▪ The theological and canonical effects of baptism are generally distinguishable but inseparable. > Canon 849. Canon 11. Canon 97. Canon 204. Canonical form. Semel-semper. McAleese.

1983 CIC 0855. Name given at baptism.

• Peters' Blog, 12 jan 2011, here. ▪ Conferring on one's children names respectful of Christian tradition is important. > Canon 855. 1917 CIC 0761. Francis. Baptism.

1983 CIC 0868. Prerequisites for infant baptism.

• Peters' Blog, 23 sep 2016, here. ▪ Baptism conferred by a Catholic can only be into the Catholic Church. > Canon 868. Founded hope. De concordia. Francis. Canon 21.

• Peters' Blog, 17 jun 2016 (2), here. ▪ Ministers who deny a child baptism solely because the mother is not married are wrong but they are not "animals". > Canon 868. Francis. Canon 868. Francis' governing.

• Peters' Blog, 18 jan 2014, here. ▪ Francis' baptism of the baby of unwed parents was licit and O'Malley can receive a remembrance of his baptism from a Protestant minister but the explanations that have been offered for both actions are themselves troubling. > Canon 868. Canon 1166. Pascite =. Blessing. Sacrament. Sacramental.

• Peters' Blog, 13 jan 2014, here. ▪ Discussion of Francis' ambiguous actions re baptism further fuels confusion about several topics. > Canon 868. Allen. Rights and duties.

• Peters' Blog, 12 jan 2014, here. ▪ Francis' example of baptizing the baby of unwed parents violates no law but sends an ambiguous message to couples hearing from pastors about the importance of regularizing their marriage status. > Canon 868. Canonical form.

1983 CIC 0886. Territorial considerations in episcopal conferral of Confirmation.

• Peters' Blog, 13 may 2013, here. ▪ Cdl Mahony's confirmations are certainly valid and probably licit. > Canon 886. Gomez. Cardinal.

1983 CIC 0891. Age for Confirmation.

• Peters' Blog, 14 feb 2019, here. ▪ Another welcome return to the earlier age for Confirmation. > Canon 891. Wall.

1983 CIC 0897. Definition and description of the Most Holy Eucharist,

• Peters' Blog, 13 oct 2014, here. ▪ Spiritual Communion is fruitless for those in grave sin. > Relatio post disceptationem 48. Landucci. DMC. Sacramental reception of holy Communion. Indulgence. Cano 898. Canon 897.

1983 CIC 0915. Restrictions on ministration of holy Communion.

Note: While some of my discussion on the ministration of holy Communion occurs in writings listed on this page most of my treatment of this issue appears at E. Peters, wbp Resources for Understanding and Applying Canon 915, here. = Other writings include the following:

• Peters' Blog, 05 mar 2018, here. ▪ An ambiguous assertion in the AOW "Sharing the Joy of Love" document could mislead ministers into thinking that divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics are eligible for holy Communion . > Canon 915. Amoris laetitia. Archdiocese of Washington (DC).

• Peters' Blog, 23 feb 2017, here. ▪ Amoris laetitia changed no doctrines or disciplines but its ambiguity is a serious flaw that must be addressed. > Canon 915. Nichols. Maltese Disaster. German program. Coccopalmerio. Buenos Aires Letter. Chaput. Canada.

• Peters' Blog, 14 feb 2017, here. ▪ Coccopalmerio seems to make several serious errors in commenting upon the reception of holy Communion by divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics. > Canon 915. Waugh. Solicitation. Muller.

• Peters' Blog, 31 jan 2017, here. ▪ Scicluna claims against contrary evidence that canon law excommunicated adulterers. > Canon 915. 1917 CIC 2357. Apostolicae Sedis moderatione. Pius IX.

• Peters' Blog, 15 jan 2017, here. ▪ The Maltese Disaster exploits ambiguous passages in Amoris laetitia. > Canon 915 vCanon 392. Caffarra. Muller. Cardinals' Dubia. L'Osservatore Romano.

• Peters' Blog, 12 dec 2015, here. ▪ Cupich is not a heretic but is woefully deficient in defending basic Church teaching on marriage and the Eucharist. > Canon 915. Heresy. 'Same-sex marriage'. Canon 392. Canon 1055. Canon 916. Clergy conscience.

• Peters' Blog, 11 oct 2014, here. ▪ Ambiguous statements by prelates regarding admission of divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics to holy Communion should be clarified and if necessary corrected. > Canon 915. Coccopalmerio. Tettamanzi. Allen. Burke. CCC 2384. Adultery. CCC 1451. Firm purpose of amendment. Canon 959.

• Peters' Blog, 16 oct 2014, here. ▪ Kurtz's comment that questions about admitting divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics. to hcc need to be studied by experts is preferable to such matters being decided by personal feelings or vague notions of compassion. > Canon 915. Canon 916. Kurtz. Burke. Pell. Royal. Muller. Extraordinary Synod.

• Peters' Blog, 17 sep 2014, here. ▪ Bp Tobin's soft-peddling of hard distinctions contributes to confusion amount admission of drmcc to hcc. > Canon 915. Annulment process.

• Peters' Blog, 13 may 2014, here. ▪ Staudt fails to recognize the real flaws in Kasper's positions so his critique of the prelate stumbles in several places; divorce and remarriage are not problems of the same kind as 'same-sex marriage'. > Canon 915. Canon 1055. Divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics. Heroic exercise. Bad rhetoric.

• Peters' Blog, 08 may 2014 (1), here. ▪ If Kasper is correct that Francis believes half of all marriages are invalid both men should drop everything to deal with the monumental crisis that indicates and not use it as tool against Church teaching on reception of hcc. > Canon 915. Francis' governing.

• Peters' Blog, 12 dec 2013, here. ▪ Either divorce-and-civil-remarriage among Catholics is objectively gravely evil, or it is not; or, either the Eucharist is all the Church asserts it to be, or it is not. > Canon 915. Canon 916. Canon 1134. Canon 1085.

• Peters' Blog, 10 may 2013, here. ▪ Cdl Brady's alleged comments re Kenny and holy Communion do not state anything concrete, good or bad. > Canon 915. Abortion. Canon 916.

• Peters' Blog, 05 mar 2011, here. ▪ The New York Daily News attempt to pit Cuomo against the bishops of New York over an alleged "Vatican slap" was humorous. > Canon 915. Lee.

• Peters' Blog, 16 may 2007, here. ▪ Canon 915 and pro-abortion activity. > Honduras. Rodriguez Maradiaga.

• Peters' Blog, 15 mar 2007, here. ▪ Giuliani is not excommunicated. > Wolfe. NY Daily News. Nathan. Canon 915. Pascite 1331. Pascite 1397. Canon 1369=. Canon 1091. Canon 1057. Canon 1108. Baltimorian excommunication.

• Peters' Blog, 17 jan 2007, here. ▪ Denial of Communion is not excommunication and it is unlikely that either action is appropriate for a 'failure in civic duty'. Canon 915. Pascite 1331. Okobo.

1983 CIC 916. Restrictions on approaching for holy Communion.

• Peters' Blog, 24 feb 2017, here. ▪ Public reception of holy Communion by private sinner is the only instance wherein a minister may and must administer the Sacrament. > Canon 916. Divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics. Canon 915. Canon 843. Spiritual communion. Amoris laetitia. Maltese Disaster.

• Peters' Blog, 13 apr 2016, here. ▪ Francis correctly identifies the Eucharist as 'powerful medicine' but fails to recall the conditions under which it may be taken. > Canon 916. Amoris laetitia. Francis. CCC 1385. CCC 2384. CCC 1650. St Paul I Corinthians XI.

• Peters' Blog, 15 oct 2015, here. ▪ Myers wrote a substantively sound, occasionally poorly-worded, guide to Catholic identify and conduct; Reid meanly caricatured it. > Canon 916. Marriage. Valid. 'Same-sex marriage'. Canon 209.

• Peters' Blog, 02 apr 2014, here. ▪ Cordileone’s comments on not approaching for holy Communion on a guilty conscience were correct; those taking his comments to have been about withholding hcc from various persons go beyond his actual words. > Canon 916. Canon 915.

• Peters' Blog, 27 sep 2012, here. ▪ Abp Myers observes that belief in the permanence of marriage is proposed infallibly by the ordinary magisterium. > Canon 916. Canon 1055. Canon 209. Canon 750. Canon 751.

1983 CIC 0919. Communion fast.

Note: While some of my discussion of the Communion fast occurs in writings listed on this page most of my treatment of this issue appears at E. Peters, wbp Extending the Communion fast, here. > Canon 919. Canon 898. Canon 1247. Holy day of obligation. Communion fast. Fervorino. Pharisee. Pius XII. Paul VI. Antinomianism. Francis’ governing.

• Peters' Blog, 06 oct 2014, here. ▪ Collins is correct to observe that pressure to receive holy Communion contributes to increases in irreverent receptions. > Canon 915. Canon 916. Canon 919.

1983 CIC 0920. Annual holy Communion.

• Peters' Blog, 03 nov 2017, here. ▪ Image of an old "Certificate of Easter Communion". > Canon 920.

1983 CIC 0945. General authorization of stipends.

• Peters' Blog, 18 may 2011, here. ▪ Catholics are free to pray for anyone and Mass can be offered for anyone but bulletin inclusion of names is not required and might become a distraction. > Canon 945. Canon 901. CCC 958. CCC 1032. CCC 1371. 1917 CIC 2262. Canon 945. Ecumenical Directory 121.

1983 CIC 0959. Description of Confession.

• Edward Peters, "Video communications technology and the sacramental confessions of Deaf Catholics", The Jurist 73 (2013) 513-537, pdf here. ▪ The canonical tradition would support the use of assistive technology in celebrating Confession among the Deaf. > Canon 959. Canon 840. Deaf ministry.

1983 CIC 0960. Individual and integral confession is the ordinary means of reconciliation.

• Peters' Blog, 24 aug 2007, here. ▪ Couples should not attempt 'joint Confession'. > Deitzen. Canon 960. Canon 961. Canon 962. Seal. Canon 988. Canon 980. CDF.

• Peters' Blog, 29 may 2007, here. ▪ On-line confession is null. > Canon 1378=. Canon 960. Canon 961.

1983 CIC 0961. General absolution.

• Peters' Blog, 28 apr 2010 (2), here. ▪ Recommending general absolution until age 18 as a preventative against improper questions to children from confessors is a terrible idea. > Canon 961. Canon 962. Canon 979. Campbell.

1983 CIC 0966. Faculties for Confession.

• Peters' Blog, 30 sep 2019, here. ▪ No one need recognize a priest's mere claims to have faculties for confession even if it is claimed that such faculties came from a pope. > Canon 966. Canon 51. Canon 331. Canon 1526. Alison.

1983 CIC 0967. Faculties for Confession.

• Peters' Blog, 14 nov 2012 (2), here. ▪ Robinson's public willingness to violate the seal of Confession warrants revocation of his faculties to celebrate the sacrament. > Canon 967. Canon 966. Canon 983. Canon 974. Pascite 1388=. Canon 331. Canon 1405. Civil rights waiver.

1983 CIC 0980. Absolution generally to be conferred.

• Peters' Blog, 09 feb 2017, here. ▪ Assertions apparently made by ecclesiastics before Australian authorities wrongly claim that absolution can be withheld from penitents who decline to turn themselves in for civil crimes. > Canon 980. Obligation to perform lawful penance.

1983 CIC 0983. Seal of Confession.

Note: While some of my discussion of the seal of Confession occurs in writings listed on this page most of my treatment of this issue appears at E. Peters, wbp Seal of Confession, here.> Anointing. Penance. =

Omnium 1008. Introduction to holy Orders

• Edward Peters, "Simplex priests. Ministry with a past, ministry with a future?", Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 41 (2018) 109-114, pdf here. > Casey. Synod of the Amazon. 1917 CIC 882. 1917 CIC 976. 1917 CIC 877. Canon 970.

Omnium 1009. Ranks of orders and referral to liturgical books.

• Peters' Blog, 10 may 2017, here. ▪ It seems that Coccopalmerio spoke at best incautiously, but surely incorrectly, and possibly delictually about the alleged validity of Anglican orders. > Canon 1009. Apostolicae curae. Infallibility. Secondary object. Ordinary magisterium. Ratzinger. Ad tuendam. Canon 750. Canon 1371=. Ordination.

1983 CIC 1024. Requisites for valid ordination.

• Peters' Blog, 01 oct 2019, here. ▪ Agreeing with Weishaupt that Ordinatio sacerdotalis n 4. makes an infallible assertion. > Canon 1024. Secondary object. Infallibility. Presbyterate. Diaconate. Excommunication.

• Peters' Blog, 11 apr 2018, here. ▪ Schonborn's remarks on papal and conciliar authority over questions pertaining to calls for the ordination of women are quite reckless. > Canon 1024. Schonborn. Female ordination. Canon 1024. Ordinatio sacerdotalis. Infallibility. Canon 331. Canon 1372=. 1917 CIC 2332.

• Peters' Blog, 30 oct 2014, here. ▪ Holding for the ordination of women is not "heresy" but it is opposed to the infallible teaching of the Church. > Canon 751. Canon 1024. Heresy. Sandell. Ordinatio sacerdotalis. Walsh. Primary object. Secondary object. Infallibility. Pascite 1371=.

• Peters' Blog, 28 apr 2014, here. ▪ Abp Martin confuses matters when he describes the ordination of women as "not on the table at the moment". > Canon 1024. Ordinatio sacerdotalis. Infallibility. Canon 751. Pascite 1364. Credenda. Tenenda.

• Peters' Blog, 13 nov 2008, here. ▪ Bourgeois could be facing dismissal from the clerical state as well as excommunication for his support for female ordination. > Canon 1024. CDF. Canon 1326=. 1314. Automatic sanctions. Lombardi.

• Peters' Blog, 11 apr 2008, here. ▪ Voice of America is screamingly bad at Latin. > Canon 1024. Swicord. Female ordination. Meehan.

1983 CIC 1029. General requisites for ordination.

• Edward Peters, "The ordination of men bereft of speech and the celebration of sacraments in sign language", Studia Canonica 42 (2008) 331-345, pdf here. ▪ Deafness is no longer an irregularity for ordination; sacraments can be celebrated in sign language alone as visual languages satisfy the 'human expression' requirement of sacramental form. > Canon 1029. Canon 1025. Irregularity. Canon 1041. Canon 841. Deaf ministry.

• Edward Peters, "Canonical and cultural developments culminating in the ordination of Deaf men during the twentieth century", Josephinum Journal of Theology 15 (2008) 427-443, pdf here. ▪ As titled. > Canon 1029. Canon 1025. Irregularity. Canon 1041.

Deaf ministry.

1983 CIC 1041. Impediments to reception of holy Orders.

• Peters' Blo, 17 sep 2018, here. ▪ One’s status as victim of childhood sexual abuse might, or might not, make one more likely to abuse children but neither said status nor homosexuality are impediments to holy Orders. > Canon 1041. Canon 1025. Canon 1040. Canon 1052. Homosexuality. Eberstadt.

• Edward Peters, "Vasectomy as an irregularity for holy Orders", Angelicum 90 (2013) 165-187, pdf here. ▪ Vasectomy does not meet traditional criteria for mutilation and so is not an irregularity for orders but the fact of vasectomy may still be taken into consideration of a man's suitability for ministry. > Canon 1041. Pio-Benedictine analysis. Decretal analysis.

1983 CIC 1055. Definition of Marriage.

• Peters' Blog, 18 mar 2021, here. ▪ Overview of fundamental marriage concepts. > Canon 1055. 'Same-sex marriage'. Canonical form.

• Peters' Blog, 02 sep 2017, here. ▪ Analysis of confusing statements on "marriage" and "civil marriage" > Canon 1055. Brennan. Marriage. Matrimony. Canon form. Infallibility. 'Same-sex marriage'. Australia.

• Edward Peters, "What Francis forgets about marriage", First Things on-line (22 jun 2016), on-line here. ▪ Francis' rash comments about rampant marriage nullity devalue marriage and Matrimony. > Canon 1055. Amoris laetitia. Contract. Covenant. Matrimony. Sacrament. Validity. Nullity. Canonical form. Canon 1099. Canon 1060.

• Peters' Blog, 18 jun 2016, here. ▪ Francis confuses "cohabitation" with "marriage" and inaccurately presents "civil marriage" (for most) as "marriage" (for Catholics). > Marriage. Matrimony. Canonical form. Kasper. Burke. Mitis Iudex. Amoris laetitia. Relation between doctrine and law. Joyce. Pharisees.

• Peters' Blog, 30 jan 2015, here. ▪ One must not confuse "those who are not living the fullness of Christian marriage" with 'those who are not living in Christian marriage at all'. > Canon 1055. Baldisseri. Precision of speech.

• Peters' Blog, 12 oct 2014, here. ▪ Highlights of Burke's EWTN interview. > Canon 1055. Extraordinary Synod on the Family. Brother-sister. Annulment process. Marriage. Contract. Canon 1671. Mitis Iudex. Canon 1682. Appeal. Canon 346. Canon 342. Francis.

• Peters' Blog, 29 sep 2014, here. ▪ Annulments deal with validity, not sacramentality, of marriage. > Canon 1055. Internal forum. Walsh. Uncitable respondent. CCC 2384.

• Peters' Blog, 24 jul 2014, here. ▪ O'Toole's comment on 'sacramentality' of marriage and the annulment process are confused and misleading. > Canon 1055. Nguyen. Smith. Validity.

• Peters' Blog, 08 feb 2014, here. ▪ The ancient phrase “second marriage”, which was allowed a survivor after the death of spouse, is being misapplied by some today to mean a ‘second marriage’ after divorce from a first spouse, which is not. > Canon 1055. Canon 1085. Nicaea. Jerome. 1917 CIC 1142. Canon 1134.

• Peters' Blog, 06 mar 2010, here. ▪ Re-labeling "marriage" as "holy matrimony" overlooks that the great majority of marriage in the world are not sacraments. > 'Same-sex marriage'. Msgr Pope. Canon 1055.

Amoris laetitia.

Note: While some of my discussion of Amoris laetitia occurs in writings listed on this page most of my treatment of this issue appears at E. Peters, wbp =

• Peters' Blog, 04 dec 2017 (1), here. ▪ The publication of Francis' letter endorsement of the Buenos Aires Letter in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis does not confer magisterial authority on the letter. > Amoris laetitia. Apostolic letter. Motu proprio. Divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics. Canon 915. Magisterium. John Paul II.

• Edward Peters, "The canonical position of Amoris laetitia", Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 40/1-2 (Spring-Summer, 2017) 15-19, here. ▪ The 'Communion event' involves two actors doing two different things in accord with two different laws; Amoris is not a legislative document; the only 'internal forum solution' here is the brother-sister relationship. > The Communion event. Canon 7. Canon 915. Canon 916. Minister. Recipient. Maltese Disaster. German program. Buenos Aires Letter. Coccopalmerio. External forum. Two fora.

• Peters' Blog, 02 feb 2017, here. ▪ The German program for implementing Amoris laetitia is slightly less blatant than is the Maltese Disaster but it too fails to uphold established Church teaching and discipline on holy Communion. > Canon 915. Divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics. Canon 392. Buenos Aires Letter. Huonder. Solicitation.

• Peters' Blog, 13 jan 2017, here. ▪ The implementation of Amoris laetitia VIII by the bishops of Malta is nothing short of a disaster. > Maltese Disaster. Canon 874. Canon 915. Canon 916. CCC 2384. Conjugal relations. Solicitation in Confession. Scicluna. Grech.

• Peters' Blog, 20 dec 2017, here. ▪ Remarks on de Mattei's reply. > Amoris laetitia. Canon 20. Notion of law. Familiaris consortio. Magisterium. Ordinatio sacerdotalis. Canon 915. Internal forum. Role of law in Church.

• Peters' Blog,12 dec 2017, here. ▪ Analysis of remarks by de Mattei. > Amoris laetitia. Heresy. Infallibility. Buenos Aires Letter. Acta Apostolicae Sedis s. Magisterium. Episcopal conference. Apostolos suos. John Paul II. Canon 915. Second Vatican Council.

• Peters' Blog, 08 dec 2017, here. ▪ Analysis of how Faggioli himself demonstrates the need of theologians for a better understanding of canon law. > Amoris laetitia. Acta Apostolicae Sedis. Buenos Aires Letter. Francis. Magisterium. Canon 915. Pius IX. Desuetude. Weigel. Divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics.

'Same-sex marriage'.

While some discussion of 'same-sex marriage' appears in my writings listed here the following deal most directly with this phenomenon. =

• Peters' Blog, 16 jun 2007, here. ▪ Meade's essay ridiculing Church teaching on man-woman marriage is so bad that he should resign from the archdiocesan commission advising on parish closures in Boston. > Canon 1055. ssmm. Canon 225. Canon 227. Canon 747. O'Malley.

Sacramentality of Christian marriage.

1983 CIC 1056. Unity and indissolubility of Christian marriage.

• Peters' Blog, 30 jan 2018, here. ▪ Argues against proposal that extrinsic indissolubility, instead of arising from consummation, should arise in stages during the course of Matrimony. > Canon 1056. Canon 1055. Alesandro. Infallibility. Alexander III. Covenant vs. contract.

• Peters' Blog, 26 oct 2017, here. ▪ Boudway is unqualified to analyze technical points of canon law and should not complain when his mistakes are corrected by experts acting within their expertise. > Canon 1056. Murray. Marriage. Indissolubility. Canon 1141. Credentials.

• Peters' Blog, 25 oct 2017 (3), here. ▪ The Pauline and Petrine Privileges are not exceptions to Church teaching on the indissolubility of marriage. > Canon 1056. Boudway. Murray. Canon 1141. Canon 1142. Canon 1143. All. Indissolubility. Credentials.

• Peters' Blog, 01 jul 2007, here. ▪ Cohabiting couples should not be treated as "sort of married". > Canon 1056. Canon 1061. Lawler. Risch. Gratian. Marriage theory. Indissolubility.

1983 CIC 1058. All not prohibited by law can contract marriage.

• Peters' Blog, 21 sep 2017, here. ▪ Martin confuses “celibacy” with “continence” and misrepresents Church teaching and law on the right to marry. > Canon 1058. Martin. Celibacy. Continence. Canon 1087. Canon 1089. Canon 277. Canon 1075. Canon 1055. Reception. Infallibility.

1983 CIC 1059. Domains of canon and civil law regarding marriage.

• Peters' Blog, 05 may 2015, here. ▪ Clergy should not refuse to certify a real marriage simply because the same state form can be used to certify a pretend marriage. > Canon 1059. Radner-Seitz. 'Same-sex marriage'. Ireland. Divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics. Canon 1085. Canon 22.

• Peters' Blog, 04 dec 2014, here. ▪ Polls suggesting opposition to religious officiants signing marriage registration forms indicates how little such people understand what signing such forms means and doesn't mean. > Canon 1059. Canon 1055. Canon 1057. Canon 1071. Radner-Seitz First Things.

• Peters' Blog, 25 nov 2014, here. ▪ Rebuttal of McCall's endorsement of calls to cease cooperating with civil marriage registration. > Canon 1059. Canon 22. Canon 1058. Radner-Seitz. Marriage. Matrimony.

• Peters' Blog, 23 nov 2014, here. ▪ Schmitz wrongly sees 'clericalism' at work in the opposition to Radner-Seitz Pledge and his observing a 'decent interval' between wedding rites and signing forms is an empty exercise bound to raise practical problems for couples. > Canon 1059. Canon 1055. Weigel. Msgr Pope. Chaput.

• Peters' Blog, 21 nov 14, here. ▪ Neither Radner-Seitz nor Reno has proven what is so unconscionable about signing a civil form that states two people eligible for marriage got married. > Canon 1059. Canon 1055. Btw: Reno's gracious reply to my comments of 24 nov 2014 is here.

• Peters' Blog, 19 nov 2014 (2), here. ▪ The Radner-Seitz Pledge inevitably leads to double-wedding ceremonies that are problematic in themselves and are further complicated by canonical form. > Canon 1059. Canon 1127. Canon 1108. Canon 1055.

• Peters' Blog, 19 nov 2014 (1), here. ▪ Special problems for Catholics raised by adopting the Radner-Seitz Pledge. > Canon 1059. Canon 1055. Canonical form. Canon 1127.

• Peters' Blog, 18 nov 2014 (1), here. ▪ Rebuttal of the Radner-Seitz Pledge that encouraged religious ministers to withdraw from cooperation with the state registration of marriage. > Canon 1059. Canon 22. 'Same-sex marriage'.

• Peters' Blog, 22 oct 2014, here. ▪ Rebuttal of Chaput's endorsement of calls to cease cooperating with civil marriage registration. > Canon 1059. Canon 22.

• Edward Peters (contributor), "The Church and Civil Marriage", First Things (April 2014) at 14, on-line here. ▪ Clergy perform primarily religious, not civil, functions at a wedding; it is not within the Church's power to decide what recognition the State will accord to or withhold from religious weddings. > Canon 1059. Canon 22. Sine matrimonio.

• Peters' Blog, 01 jul 2013, here. ▪ Rebuttal of Msgr Pope's endorsement of calls to cease cooperating with civil marriage registration. > Canon 1059. Canon 22. Sine matrimonio. Marriage. Disparity of cult.

• Peters' Blog, 14 nov 2012 (1), here. ▪ Officiants at religious weddings rites are not acting 'for' the State though the State chooses to recognize their ceremonies as marriage. >Canon 1059. Weigel. Canon 1055. Canon 1071.

1983 CIC 1060. =

14 nov 2015, here. CDF is correct to note that the actual validity of a marriage is investigated in an annulment case notwithstanding its presumptive validity. > Canon 1060. Canon 915.

1983 CIC 1061. Consummation of marriage.

• Peters' Blog, 16 feb 2017, here. ▪ The concepts of "sexual relations" and "conjugal relations" should not be treated as equivalents by ecclesiastical figures. > Canon 1061. Amoris laetitia. Francis. Coccopalmerio. Buenos Aires. Maltese Disaster. Gaudium et spes.

• Peters' Blog, 30 sep 2014, here. ▪ Kasper misrepresents elementary aspects of the marriage nullity process. > Canon 1061. Canon 1671. CCC 2384.

1983 CIC 1066. Prevention of illicit or invalid weddings.

• Peters' Blog, 09 may 2014, here. ▪ Kasper’s claim that the Francis believes that half of all marriage are invalid effectively relegates Canon 1066 to the status of a coin toss. > Canon 1055. Synod on Marriage. Nullity. Tribunal.

• Peters' Blog, 07 apr 2006, here. ▪ A pastor who declines to officiate at a pregnancy-rushed wedding is likely acting prudently. > Canon 1066. Sweet. Feehan High School. Canon 1108. Canon 1057. CCC 2353. Fall River. Celibacy. Chastity. Continence. Canon 1075. Canon 1077. Lismore.

1983 CIC 1073. Impediment to marriage.

• Peters' Blog, 11 sep 2014, here. ▪ Cohabitation is not an impediment to marriage but pastorally it is poor preparation for marriage. > Canon 1073. Canon 1058. Canon 1108. Canon 1059.

1983 CIC 1083. Nonage and marriage.

• Edward Peters, "Too young to marry", America (22-29 Jun 1996) 14-16, text here. ▪ The USCCB should raise the age for licit marriage to 18 for men and women. > Canon 1071. Canon 1072. Episcopal conference.

1983 CIC 1085. Prior bond and marriage.

• Peters' Blog, 22 apr 2017, here. ▪ Correcting false claims that universal canon law excommunicated divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics until the days of John Paul II. > Canon 1085. Keenan. Buttiglione. Scicluna. Familiaris consortio. Canonical form. Paul VI. Canon 915. Francis. Apostolicae Sedis moderatione.

• Peters' Blog, 17 apr 2014, here. ▪ Jackie O was not excommunicated for apparently marrying Onassis outside the Church. > Canon 1085. 1917 CIC 1069. Canonical form. 1917 CIC 1094. 1917 CIC 2319. Abrogation. Bigamy. Infamy. 1884 Council of Baltimore. Automatic sanctions.

• Peters' Blog, 05 sep 2007, here. ▪ Employment at Catholic institutions requires employee compliance with some key Catholics doctrinal and disciplinary norms. > Canon 1085. Canon 915.

1983 CIC 1086. Disparity of cult and marriage.

• Peters' Blog, 18 sep 2017, here. ▪ Implications of of Tunisia's decision to lift ban against Muslim women marrying non-Muslim men. > Canon 1086. Dispensation. Permission. Islam. Erga migrantes. Marriage. Matrimony.

• Peters' Blog, 08 oct 2014, here. ▪ Correcting some of the confused statements in synodal assertions on various marriage categories and issues. > Canon 1086. Canon 1124. Matrimony. Canon 751. Apostasy. Interreligious. Ecumenical. Drmcc.

1983 CIC 1087. Orders and marriage.

• Peters' Blog, 26 feb 2015 (1), here. ▪ Whether because he disregarded canonical form or because he is impeded from marrying based on holy Orders a priest's attempt at civil marriage is canonically null. > Canon 1087. Coakley. Marriage. Letourneau. Canon 1394=. Canon 1008. Canonical form.

• Peters' Blog, 23 aug 2006, here. ▪ The excommunication of a priest in Florida for agitating for married clergy also seems ready to attempt marriage invalidly. > Canon 1087. Pascite 1333. 1394=. Enforcement.

1983 CIC 1090. Crimen.

• Peters' Blog, 23 jan 2006, here. ▪ Canonical issues in the Schiavo-Centonze marriage. > Canon 1090. Canon 1430. Canon 1674=. Canon 1066. Canon 15.

• Edward Peters, "Canonical questions about the Schiavo-Centonze marriage", Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 29/2 (Spring 2006) 6-8, pdf here. ▪ As titled.

1983 CIC 1099. Error concerning substance of marriage

• Peters' Blog, 17 jun 2016 (3), here. ▪ However thin is Francis' claim that 'ignorance of permanence' dooms most marriages to nullity, without the middle term demanded by canon law (that said ignorance must determine the will), his claim falls flat. > Canon 1099. Matrimony. Sacrament. Validity. Canon 1096.

• Peters' Blog, 10 oct 2014 (1), here. ▪ The Roman Rota found for nullity based on "a divorce mentality" back in 1956 (translation provided). > Canon 1055. Filipiak. Canon 16. Validity. Permanence.

1983 CIC 1101. Simulation of consent to marriage.

• Peters' Blog, 18 feb 2014, here. ▪ Pre-nuptial agreements should be assessed on their content not on their genre. > Canon 1101. Canon 1055. CCC 2383. Divorce. Rite of Marriage. Consent. 1917 CIC 1061.

De Concordia 1108. Canonical form for marriage.

Note: While some of my discussion of canonical form occurs in writings listed on this page most of my treatment of this issue appears at E. Peters, wbp Eliminating canonical form for marriage, here.

• Peters' Blog, 17 apr 2006, here. ▪ An unusual “Notification” from the PCLT just made ‘formal defection from the Church’ much harder to prove. > Canon 1108. Canon 1117. German tax forms. Canon 515. Canon 369. Canon 134. Semel-semper. =

• E. Peters, wbp =.

1983 CIC 1138. Presumptions of paternity and legitimacy.

• Edward Peters, "The canonical presumption of spousal paternity", Periodica de re Canonica 95 (2006) 307-342, pdf here. ▪ The presumptions regarding paternity must yield to scientific rebuttal. > Canon 1138. DNA.

1983 CIC 1141. Ratified and consummated marriage is dissolved only by death.

• Peters' Blog, 02 jan 2018, here. ▪ The 'absolute prohibition of divorce' alleged here could apply, at most, to consummated Matrimony. > Canon 1141. Matrimony. Marriage. Divorce. Peta. Lenga. Schneider.

1983 CIC 1143. Pauline Privilege.

• Peters' Blog, 10 jan 2018, here. ▪ The 'Pauline Privilege' is not an exception to Church teaching on the indissolubility of marriage. > Canon 1143. Petrine privilege. Matrimony. Consummation. Papal dissolution. CCC 1640.

• Peters' Blog, 15 jan 2018, here. ▪ The 'Petrine Privilege' is not an exception to Church teaching on the indissolubility of marriage. > Canon 1143. Pauline privilege. Matrimony. Consummation. Papal dissolution. CCC 1640. Pius XII. Roman Rota.

1983 CIC 1151. Spousal right and duty to maintain conjugal living.

• Peters' Blog, 25 jun 2015, here. ▪ Francis correctly holds open the possibility of spouses separating. > Canon 1151. Separation of spouses. Canon 1136. Canon 1055. Canon 1153.

1983 CIC 1152. Adultery as grounds for terminating conjugal living.

• Peters' Blog, 08 jul 2017, here. ▪ Civil lawyers do not recognize that canon law understands certain terms differently than they do and are thus prone to making significant errors in their critiques of canon law. > Canon 1152. Cappello. Divorce. Rota address. Permission to divorce. Prummer. Rossi. Credentials.

• Peters' Blog, 18 may 2017, here. ▪ Catholics do not generally need ecclesiastical permission to seek a civil divorce. > Canon 1152. Coccopalmerio. Imprimatur. Recourse.

1983 CIC 1168. Ministers of sacramentals.

• Peters' Blog, 27 april 2010, here. ▪ Analysis of blessings and indulgences presently or potentially associated with ordination. > Canon 1168. Canon 1169. Shorter Book Blessings. Enchiridion.

1983 CIC 1172. Exorcism.

• Peters' Blog, 29 aug 2006, here. ▪ Amorth adds to confusion about possession and exorcism. > Canon 1172. Allen.

1983 CIC 1184. Privation of funerals.

Note: While some of my discussion of the privation of funerals occurs in writings listed on this page most of my treatment of this issue appears at E. Peters, wbp Funeral controversies, here. > Canon 1184. Canon 901. Canon 392. LaCuesta. 'Same-sex marriage'. CCC 2384. Bp. Paprocki. Bp. Morlino. Ted Kennedy. O'Malley. Gotti. Bulger. Moloney. State-sanctioned suicide. Signs of repentance. Prayers for the deceased. Credentials. Canon 16. Canon 17. Sueppel. Canon 1347. Canon 1358. Legislative supremacy. Legislative history. Manifest sinner. Mind of the Legislator. Internal forum. External forum. Matthew XVI.

1983 CIC 1210. What is appropriate in sacred places.

• Peters' Blog, 22 oct 2019, here. ▪ Removing pagan idols from Catholic churches is not a mere "stunt". > Canon 1210. Canon 1220. Pachamama.

• Peters' Blog, 12 sep 2006, here. ▪ A celebrant's dogs do not belong in the sanctuary during Mass. > Canon 1210. Canon 1220. Canon 285. CCC 1181. Leash laws. Scurti.

1983 CIC 1220. Care to be applied to churches.

• Edward Peters, "Canon law and Catholic common sense", First Things Web Exclusives, 24 jan 2020, on-line here. ▪ On the use of a Catholic church for Anglican rites. > Canon 1220. Canon 1210. Knestout. Directory on Ecumenism. Poor drafting.

1983 CIC 1246. Sundays and holy days of obligation.

• Peters' Blog, 04 dec 2017 (2), here. ▪ Bishops canceling Sunday Mass on Christmas Eve is a very bad idea. > Canon 1246. Canon 1247. CCC 2182. Super Mass. Holy day of obligation. Canon 900. Canon 214.

1983 CIC 1247. Sunday obligations.

• Peters' Blog, 13 mar 2020, here. ▪ Mass attendance obligations in time of pestilence. > Canon 1247. Impossibility. Dispensation. Excuse. COVID.

• Peters' Blog, 09 dec 2014, here. ▪ Regarding Mass attendance obligations, the question is not how much of Mass did one miss but rather why did one miss however much one missed. > Canon 1247. Canon 1248.

• Peters' Blog, 23 sep 2013, here. ▪ Boring homilies and 'feeling unwelcome in church' do not justify walking out of Mass or failing to support the Church. > Canon 1247. Canon 222. CCC 2042. CCC 2043. Poust.

1983 CIC 1248. Satisfaction of Sunday obligation and alternatives when impossible.

• Peters' Blog, 06 dec 2014, here. ▪ Attendance at any Mass celebrated in Catholic rite, regardless of the readings used, etc., satisfies a Mass attendance obligation associated with that time. > Canon 1248. Liturgical law.

• Peters' Blog, 08 dec 2014, here. ▪ The option of satisfying a Mass attendance obligation by attending Mass sometime on the previous day is satisfied by attendance at any Mass beginning noon or later on that previous day, this, against most American (but not international) commentators. > Canon 1248. Evening. Huels. Canon 17.

• Peters' Blog, 05 dec 2015, here. ▪ Two Mass attendance obligations requires attendance at two Masses. > Canon 1248. Holy day of obligation. Sunday. Dispensation. Doubt of law. Canon 144.

• Peters' Blog, 30 nov 2008, here. ▪ Most commentaries regard Mass beginning after noon on Saturday as satisfying the Sunday obligation. > Canon 1248. Canon 14. McNamara.

1983 CIC 1249. Divine law binds faithful to penance.

• Peters' Blog, 12 nov 2012, here. ▪ > Canon 1249. Canon 1250. Canon 1251. Canon 1253. Canon 455. Community observance. Penance. Dolan.

1983 CIC 1252. Age ranges for observing fast and abstinence.

• Peters' Blog, 17 mar 2010, here. ▪ Solemnities trump all penitential days save Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. > Canon 1246. 1917 CIC 1252. Indulgence. St. Joseph.

Book V

Temporal

Goods

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1983 CIC 1256. Ownership of temporal goods belong to proper juridic persons.

• Peters' Blog, 17 dec 2018 (2), here. ▪ Individual civil incorporation of parish and registration of parish property in its name is consistent with juridic personality provisions of canon law. > Canon 1256. Canon 515. Detroit. Vigneron. Vasa.

1983 CIC 1267. Intention of donors.

• Peters' Blog, 01 feb 2019, here. ▪ Some purported 'restricted' donations might actually imply 'modal-conditional' obligations triggering different canonical consequences. > Canon 1267. Pokorsky.

• Peters' Blog, 01 mar 2018, here. ▪ Proposal to remove Catholic schools from pastors' purview is canonically and pastorally dangerous. > Canon 515. Juridic person. Alienation. School. Australia.

1983 CIC 1290. Domains of canon and civil law regarding contracts and alienation of property.

• Peters' Blog, 06 feb 2014, here. ▪ Morals clauses in contracts should focus on conduct not on status. > Canon 1290. Canon 22. Pregnancy. Catholic schools.

Book VI

Sanctions

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• Peters' Blog, 01 jun 2021, here. ▪ Initial assessment of the revised Book VI of the Code. > Pascite. Canon 1247. Pascite 1331. Pascite 1336. Francis.

• Peters' (essay), 9 may 2019, here. ▪ Observations on the principle of benignity concerning heresy alleged against a pope. > Pascite =. Canon 212. Canon 221. Canon 1401. Heresy. Francis.

• Peters' Blog, 20 feb 2019, here. ▪ While sacrilege itself is not a crime under canon law, sacrilege committed by clergy might trigger augmented penalties. > =

Pascite 1314. Deliberative and automatic penalties.

Note: While some of my discussion of automatic penalties occurs in writings listed on this page most of my treatment of this issue appears at E. Peters, wbp Eliminating automatic penalties, here. > Canon 1314. =.

Pascite 1319. Authority for penal precepts.

• Peters' Blog, 12 jun 2017, here. ▪ Analysis of Francis' attempt to issue penal precepts to the priests of a Nigerian diocese. > Pascite 1319. Ahiara. Francis. Canon 331. Canon 273. Canon 377. Automatic penalty. Penal precept. Pascite 1333. Canon 18.

Pascite 1320. Penal liability of religious.

• Peters' Blog, 04 nov 2009, here ▪ Correcting Dolan’s wrong statements alleging lack of jurisdiction for the Quinn case. > Pascite 1320. Canon 392. George. Chicago. Canon 678. Canon 436. Abortion.

Pascite 1331. Excommunication.

• Peters' Blog, 15 mar 2019, here. ▪ If censures prove themselves ineffectual (say by having supposedly throngs of faithful laboring under them with no apparent modifications in their behavior) such censures have been in the past, and should be in the future, withdrawn. > Pascite 1331. Pascite 1397 olim c. 1398. Miller.

• Peters' Blog, 02 feb 2019, here. ▪ The 'Rummel excommunications' are irrelevant to calls for the excommunication of pro-abortion Catholics. > Pascite 1331. Canon 915. Pascite 1369. Rummel. Dolan. Dreher. Cuomo.

• Peters' Blog, 23 jan 2008, here. ▪ Ranke-Heinemann's boast that she was excommunicated lacks any evidence that the possibly-deserved sanction was levied upon her. > Pascite 1331. Canon 715. Pascite 1314. asmm. CCEO 1402.

Pascite 1336. Expiatory penalties.

• Edward Peters, "Ecclesiastical office as punishment for crime: toward the abrogation of Canon 1336 § 1, n. 4", Ius Ecclesiae 21 (2009) 367-374, pdf here. ▪ The esteem in which ecclesiastical office is to be held is ill-served by office being a form of penalty. > Pascite 1336. Canon 145. Gasparri.

Pascite 1395.

• Peters' Blog, 05 oct 2018, here. ▪ Clergy sexual offenses are best treated under three headings: sexual abuse against minors, sexual misconduct with consenting adults, and episcopal complicity in sexual misconduct. > Pascite =. Sacramentorum sanctitatis. 1917 CIC 2359. Crimen sollicitationis. Dallas Charter. Sacrilege. CCC 2120. CCC 2139. Chicago. Pascite 1395. Pascite 1399. McCarrick. Pascite 1326. 1389=. Canon 128. Canon 392. Canon 1405.

• Peters' Blog, 31 aug 2018, here. ▪ A canonical criminal case against "Uncle Ted" McCarrick grounded in Pascite 1399 should be considered > Canon = McCarrick. Francis. Heresy. Pascite1395. Sacramentorum sanctitatis. Canon 331. Canon 1405. Canon 1399. CCC 2120. Sacrilege. Canon 199. CDF. Reform of Book VI.

1983 CIC 1338.= Restrictions on certain expiatory penalties.

• Peters' Blog, 02 aug 2018, here. ▪ Honorary degrees are public relations ploys such that awarding of said degrees belittles the significance of earned degrees and revoking them carries no canonical consequences. > =Pascite [1338]. McCarrick.

1983 CIC 1339. Warnings and rebukes.

• Peters' Blog, 12 aug 2016, here. ▪ Options for responding to Biden's officiating at a 'same-sex marriage' event. > Pascite 1339. Canon 915. Trueman. Kurtz. Malone. Wenski. Dreher.

• Peters' Blog, 03 aug 2016, here. ▪ Biden's voluntary officiating at a 'same-sex marriage' invites ecclesiastical response. > Pascite 1339. Excommunication. Automatic penalty. Canon 1369=. Canon 1339=. Canon 1319=. Canon 915. Scandal.

• Peters' Blog, 02 feb 2008, here. ▪ Maciel was not suspended or under a canonical penalty when he died. > Pascite 1339. Legion of Christ. CDF. Pascite 1333.

• Peters' Blog, 19 may 2006, here. ▪ The CDF "invitation" to Maciel to spend his remaining days in penance is an odd response to the accusations levied against him. > Pascite 1339. Legion of Christ. Statute of limitations. Affirmative defenses. Canon 1312.

1983 CIC 1358=. Withdrawal from contumacy as necessary and sufficient condition for remission of penalty.

• Peters' Blog, 19 jan 2018 (2), here. ▪ Even a sincere profession of faith does not resolve all objections to membership in certain organizations. > Pascite =. Bruskewitz. Call to Action. Interdict. Excommunication. Planned Parenthood. Conley. Remission. Automatic penalty. 1347= 1358=. Canon 750. Index of Forbidden Books. Amoris laetitia. Council of Baltimore. Primary object. Secondary object.

• Edward Peters, "Benedict XVI's remission of the Lefebvrite excommunications: an analysis and alternative explanation", Studia Canonica 45 (2011) 165-189, pdf here; reprinted in Canon Law Society of Great Britain & Ireland Newsletter, 172 (Dec 2012) 1, 8-29. ▪ As titled. > Canon =.

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• Peters' Blog, 16 mar 2011, here. ▪ The delays in investigating Pousa might preclude effective canonical prosecution. > Canon 1362=. Canon 18. Regula iuris 49. Barcelona. Pascite 1329.

• Peters' Blog, 21 apr 2006, here. ▪ Chaput’s essay on suing the Church is good. > Canon 1362=. Canon 1363=.

1367=.

• Peters' Blog, 25 nov 2015, here. ▪ The gravity of Pamplona desecratory art is obvious. > Pascite =. Pamplona. Desecration of Eucharist. Azcona. CCC 2148. Canon 1323=. Canon 1324=. CDF.

• Peters' Blog,19 apr 2005, here. ▪ Selling (but not necessarily buying) of (allegedly) consecrated Hosts on eBay is to commit a formal or material gravely evil deed and should be assessed accordingly. > Canon 1367=. Moral decision-making.

Pascite 1368. Misuse of speech or communications.

• Peters' Blog, 20 mar 2018, here. ▪ A Catholic abortionist's essay about why she procured an abortion warrants ecclesiastical penal investigation. > Pascite 1368. Excommunication. Interdict. Automatic penalties. Repentance. Luckett.

• Peters' Blog, 20 may 2014, here. ▪ Sr. Gramick's open letter to Obama urging funding of overseas abortions is to use published writing to harm good morals. > Pascite 1368.. Canon 915. Canon 1717.

• Peters' Blog, 26 feb 2008, here. ▪ Feuerherd's curse of the US bishops was a crime. > Pascite 1368.. Canon 1373=. CCC 1035. National Catholic Reporter.

1370=.

• Peters' Blog, 07 dec 2015, here. ▪ Fisichella exaggerates the offense of violence against the pope to include 'verbal violence'. > Canon 1370=. Canon 18. Canon 221. Pascite 1368. Canon 1373=.

Pascite 1374. Machinations against the Church.

• Peters' Blog, 28 aug 2006, here. ▪ Besides demonstrating their incompetence with regard to canons on synods and councils, TBOC is flirting with machinations against the Church. > Pascite 1374. Dolan Maguire. Take Back Our Church. Canon 460. Canon 439. Canon 212.

1375=. Impeding or intimidating ecclesiastical persons or acts.

• Peters' Blog, 05 jun 2019, here. ▪ A governor signing a bill that requires confessors to disclose matters under the seal is to violate freedom of ministry. > Pascite =. Canon 915. Canon 1388=. 1917 CIC 234. Newsom.

1379=

• Peters' Blog, 24 apr 2009, here. ▪ Three suggestions for Mullady's article in hprr. > 1379=. Spiritual Communion. Contraceptive intent. Liceity. CCC 1131. Canon 843. Canon 1066. Canon 1075. Annulment.

1382=

• Peters' Blog, 03 feb 2006, here. ▪ Canon 1382= Excommunication. Canon 1358=. Canon 1347=. Schism. SSPX.

1378=

• Peters' Blog, 11 aug 2006, here. ▪ Women who go from pseudo-ordination to simulation of the Eucharist compound their canonical crimes. > 1378=. Canon 1024.

Pascite 1379 olim Sacrae 1378-1379. Crime of simulation.

• Edward Peters, "Simulation of the Precious Blood in Eucharistic celebration", CLSA Advisory Opinions: (2012) 106-111. ▪ Simulation attempted for "pastoral" reasons is still simulation. > Pascite 1379.

1387=. Solicitation in Confession.

• Edward Peters, "Retrospectives on Benedict XIV's const. Sacramentum poenitentiae (1741)", Apollinaris (2011) 581-605, = here =. > Crimen solicitationis.

1395=

• Peters' Blog, 12 aug 2018, here. ▪ Guarino's revisions of his remarks do not correct its errors. > Pascite =. Guarino. Clergy sexual misconduct. Homosexual acts. Lawrence v Texas. Sacramentorum sanctitatis.

• Peters' Blog, 10 aug 2018, here. ▪ Homosexual acts between clergy were canonical crimes for many centuries prior to the 1983 Code. > Pascite =. Guarino. Clergy sexual misconduct. 1917 CIC 2359. Pascite 1395. Crimen sollicitationis. Celibacy. Continence.

• Peters' Blog, 06 jun 2013, here. ▪ Bestiality is not expressly criminalized under the 1983 Code. > Pascite 1395. 1917 CIC 2359. Davis. Moral theology.

Pascite 1397 olim Sacrae 1398. Crimes against human life.

• Peters' Blog, 01 sep 2015, here, reposted here. ▪ Francis has at least clarified, and possibly expanded, the ability of priests to reconcile those guilty of abortion. > Pascite 1397 olim c. 1398. 1917 CIC 2350. Excommunication. Automatic penalty. Jubilee.

• Peters' Blog, 13 may 2019, here. ▪ Overview of some points in Vos estis. > =. Vos estis. Francis. Sacramentorum sanctitatis. Come una madre. Sacrilege. Seal. Canon 471. Canon 1548. Canon 483. Canon 336. Canon 436. Role of laity. Prescription.

• Peters' Blog, 01 nov 2012, here. ▪ Uruguay's bishops did not "excommunicate" pro-abortion legislators, though such persons are certainly 'outside of communion with the Church'. Synod.

• Peters' Blog, 12 dec 2011, here. ▪ Information about McBride’s excommunication being lifted is welcome but unreliable. > ppp 1397. St Joseph Hospital. Phoenix. Pascite 1329. Automatic sanctions. Olmsted. Canon 1358=. Canon 1347=. Catholic identity. Canon 573. Canon 654. Canon 696.

• Peters' Blog, 04 dec 2011, here. ▪ Notwithstanding Gingrich’s oddball remarks about implantation the PCLT ruled that (Pascite 1397) applies to deliberate abortions committed any time after conception. > Canon 1398=. Excommunication. CCC 2271. CCC 2275.

• Peters' Blog, 02 nov 2011, here. ▪ The Illinois Catholic Conference statement on Quinn was appropriate for its timing and genre. > Canon 915. Cooperation with evil. Abortion.

• Peters' Blog, 27 mar 2008, here. ▪ Recommending that euthanasia be expressly criminalized in the Code. > Pascite 1397. CCC 2324. CCC 2377. CCEO 1450. Excommunication. Canon 1314.

• Peters' Blog, 30 jan 2008, here. ▪ A city policy to distribute 'morning-after pills" is unquestionably wicked but not likely sufficient to incur excommunication for abortion. > Pascite 1397. CCC 1910. CCC 2273. CCC 2377. Sobrinho. Brazil. Embryo.

• Peters' Blog, 10 aug 2007, here. ▪ A priest convicted of murder should be expelled from the clerical state. > Canon 1397. Pascite 1326.

• Peters' Blog, 30 may 2007, here. ▪ Canon 1398 does not reach pro-abortion legislators > Canon 19. Canon 915. Canon 916. Robert Miller.

• Peters' Blog, 11 may 2007, here. ▪ Benedict XVI did not announce an excommunication of Mexican legislators for being pro-abortion. > Canon 915. Canon 1398.

• Peters' Blog, 05 feb 2007, here. ▪ Reports about an alleged 'Salzburg excommunication' for renting mall space to an abortion clinic are so full of errors as to be useless. > Pascite 1397. Pascite 1341. Canon 1041. Lugner. Laun.

• Peters' Blog, 29 jul 2006, here. ▪ Cdl Lopez Trujillo reasonably asserts that deliberate embryo human destruction is tantamount to procured abortion. > Pascite 1397. Canon 18. Code Commission. Fox.

Book VII

Procedures

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1983 CIC 1403. Beatification and canonization.

• Peters' Blog, 11 jul 2017 (1), here. ▪ Maiorem clarifies some principles of martyrdom but stumbles over criteria for recognizing it. > Canon 1403. Francis. Martyr of charity. John Paul II. Canon 1187. Public cult. Official text. Latin.

• Peters' Blog, 12 jan 2015, here. ▪ Murder, even if suffered out of hatred for the Faith, does not necessarily meet the criterion of martyrdom. > Canon 1403. Martyr. Odium Fidei. Benedict XVI. Stein. Kolbe. Saint.

• Peters' Blog, 27 apr 2006, here. ▪ Assessment of Benedict XVI’s letter In occasione clarifying certain terms regarding causes of saints. > Canon 1403. Martyr. Lumen gentium John Paul II.

1983 CIC 1404. "The First See is judged by no one."

• Peters' Blog, 19 aug 2017, here. ▪ Nichols’ interesting proposal to develop a canonical processes for assessing serious allegations of papal heresy faces many obstacles ▪ > Canon 1404. Canon 331. Canon 1372=. Canon 336. Burke. Tradition.

• Peters' Blog, 16 dec 2016, here. ▪ Overview of the possibility of, and of potential responses to, heresy in a pope. > Canon 1404. Four Cardinals. Grisez. Finis. 45 Catholics. Canon 751. Canon 1389=. Pascite 1330. Indefectibility. Cappello. Wernz. Bellarmine. Commentaries. Approved authors. Francis.

• Peters' Blog, 04 jan 2013, here. ▪ Canonical remarks on the cause of Dorothy Day. > Canon 1403. Abortion. 1917 CIC 2350. Communism. 1917 CIC 2335. The Catholic Worker. Spellman. Canon 300.

1983 CIC 1405. Cases exclusive to the Roman Pontiff or the Roman Rota.

• Peters' Blog, 05 mar 2010, here. ▪ The episcopal conference of Spain does not have authority to punish King Carlos for signing a Spanish abortion measure. > Canon 1405. Canon 1398=. Human Life International. Excommunication.

• Peters' Blog, 17 jun 2009, here, also Christifidelis (3 jul 2009) 6. ▪ Rome has no choice but to investigate and, as warranted, prosecute Weakland. > Canon 1405. Canon 1717. Pascite 1326. Canon 0696. Canon 0705. Pascite 1368.

• Peters' Blog, 15 jun 2007, here. ▪ My translation of a Rota case on the divorce mentality is available at Peters, wbp The Roman Rota: a sample case (coram Filipiak, 1956), here. > Canon 1405. Publications.

• Peters' Blog, 23 mar 2007, here. ▪ Bainbridge's call for Cdl Mahony's resignation is within the limits of Canon 212 but he underestimates canon law's ability (if it is used) to deal with bad bishops. > Canon 1405. Canon 1401. Gaillot. John Paul II.

1983 CIC 1417. Right to and implications of pleading before the Roman Pontiff.

• Peters' Blog, 20 jun 2007, here. ▪ News reports on the Roman Rota reversal of the Boston tribunal decision in the Kennedy-Rausch annulment case are useless without hard information on the ruling. > Canon 1417. Shattered Faith review. Canon 1643. Noonan.

1983 CIC 1419. =

• Peters' Blog, 23 sep 2014, here. ▪ Several problems with Cdl Scola's suggestion that annulment petitions be heard "pastorally". > Canon 1419. Tribunal. Burke.

1983 CIC 1432. Defender of the bond.

• Peters' Blog, 26 jan 2015, here. ▪ Francis apparently (and if so, mistakenly) holds that the Defender of the Bond is to put forth arguments against a marriage as well as for it. > Canon 1432. Dignitas connubii. Pius XII. Rota.

1983 CIC 1443. Roman Rota.

• Peters' Blog, 25 may 2006, here. ▪ Re: Website of Msgr Cormac Burke. > Canon 1443. Rota.

• E. Peters, wbp Reading notes on papal addresses to the Roman Rota (2013), here. = review of burke book.

1983 CIC 1445. Apostolic Signatura.

• Peters' Blog, 10 jul 2006, here. ▪ The appointment of Burke to the Signatura is sign of honor. > Canon 1445.

1983 CIC 1453. Time lines for hearing cases.

• Peters' Blog, 09 sep 2015, here. ▪ Francis might well, but wrongly, believe that marriage nullity cases all over the world take four years to hear. >Canon 1453. Narvaja. Nullity case. Canon 1389. Canon 1456. Validity. Cost of annulment.

1983 CIC 1459. Posing exceptions to adjudication.

• Peters' Blog, 21 sep 2015, here. ▪ Mafia criminals are qualified to serve as "witnesses" in canon law. > Canon 1459. Christian witness. Baptism. Canonical form. Italy.

1983 CIC 1483. Qualifications of advocates and procurators.

• Peters' Blog, 14 oct 2014 (1), here. ▪ Canon lawyers work out their salvation in fear and trembling as does everyone else but, like the Pharisees they are routinely compared to, their legal advice is probably sound. > Matthew XXIII. Canon 1483.

• Edward Peters, "What canon lawyers are and aren’t", This Rock (Nov 1991) 19-22, pdf here.

1983 CIC 1671. =

• Peters' Blog, 12 nov 2014, here. ▪ Annulment cases deal with validity not sacramentality; marriage is presumed valid but can be proven null; abrogation of mandatory appeal; possible new Golden Age in canon law. > Canon 1671. Canon 1055. Burke. Francis.

• Peters' Blog, 07 oct 2014, here. ▪ Imprecision haunts almost every report on synodal treatment of marriage. > Canon 1671. Erdo. Sacramentality. Validity.

• Peters' Blog, 17 feb 2014, here. ▪ Calls for caution in discussing "compromises" on annulments in that some aspects of the matter admit of compromise while others do not. > Canon 1671. Canon 1055.

• Peters' Blog, 17 may 2011, here. ▪ KOAT reporter Da has contributed nothing to public understanding of the annulment process. > Canon 1055. Canon 1671=. Chesterton. Ed Wood.

• Peters' Blog, 05 dec 2015, here. ▪ Francis wrongly generalized from possibly bad tribunal experiences in Argentina to a conclusion that all tribunals around the world are dysfunctional. > = Mitis Judex. Nullity. Martens. Urbi et Orbi. Antinomianism.

• Peters' Blog, 10 nov 2015, here. ▪ Mitis Judex is not supposed to be about “compassion” it is supposed to be about “justice”. > = Francis. Nullity. Provost. Marriage.

• Peters' Blog, 28 sep 2015, here. ▪ As reported, the pope’s comments on marriage in the light of Mitis Iudex contains several misstatements. > = Indissolubility. Nullity. Noonan. Appeal.

• Peters' Blog, 14 sep 2015, here. ▪ Bishops will not find it easy to escape the burdens of judging cases under Mitis Iudex. > = Canon 135. Canon 1420. Canon 87. Canon 221. Vacatio legis.

• Peters' Blog, 13 sep 2015, here. ▪ Despite the negative implications for the clarity of Church teaching on marriage Mitis Iudex is procedural document incapable of changing doctrine. > = Nullity. Douthat. Marx. Kasper. Fast-track annulment.

• Peters' Blog, 10 sep 2015, here. ▪ 'Fast-track' annulments made possible by Mitis Iudex threaten to disturb couples in troubled marriages. > = Fr. Z. CNN.

• Peters' Blog, 08 sep 2015 (2), here. ▪ Criticism of the expedited procedures established by Mitis Iudex. > = Marriage. Canon 378. Canon 14245. Nullity. Fast-track criteria. Martens. Kasper.

• Peters' Blog, 08 sep 2015 (1), here. ▪ Initial identification of major and minor changes wrought by Mitis Iudex in procedural law governing petitions for declaration of matrimonial nullity. > = Marriage. Annulment. Nullity.

• Peters' Blog, 15 jan 2014, here. ▪ Reform of the annulment process is needed but abandoning it is wrong. > = Canon 1671. Nullity. Daly. Canonical form. Contract. Canon 1085. Sacrilege. Divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics.

1983 CIC 1682=.

• Peters' Blog, 10 oct 2014 (2), here. ▪ Mandatory appeal of affirmative decisions is not required by natural law for justice and should be considered as part of marriage nullity reform. > = Canon 1682.

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• Peters' Blog, 09 oct 2014, here. ▪ Coccopalmerio makes conventional suggestions for 'streamlining' the marriage nullity process but dropping the requirement of formal sentence for affirmatives (a sentence that would no longer be reviewed at second instance) should also be considered. > = Canon 1671. First instance. Second instance. Mandatory appeal. Canon 1425. Canon 1682. Canon 1419.

1983 CIC 1707. Norms applicable to cased of alleged spousal death.

• Peters' Blog, 25 jul 2011, here. ▪ Canonical presumption of death and civil presumption of death are determined in different ways. > Canon 1707. Canon 1085. Canon 1674=. Australia. Jones. Sandelli.

1983 CIC 1717. Initiation and conduct of preliminary penal investigation.

• Edward Peters (American layman, 1957-), Penal Procedural Law in the 1983 Code of Canon Law, Canon Law Studies No. 537, (Catholic University of America: Washington, DC, 1991) 393 pp. Abstract at Jurist 51 (1991) 229-230, info here. ▪ Dissertation on penal procedure. > Canon 1717. Canon 1342. Trial. Automatic penalty. Deliberative penalty. Ordinary.

1983 CIC 1721. Authorization of the Promoter of Justice for a judicial penal process.

• Peters' Blog, 01 jul 2005, here. ▪ A ‘private attorney general’ accusation of heresy against an individual is more difficult to organize under the 1983 Code than it was under the 1917 Code. > Canon 1721. Promoter of Justice. Natural law. 1917 CIC 1935. Kerry. Abortion.

1983 CIC 1722. Restrictions on an accused during a penal process.

• Peters' Blog, 10 nov 2013, here. ▪ It is unknown what, if any, plausible accusations of canonical crimes could be brought against a priest writing what purports to be an exposure of homosexual clergy. > Canon 1722. Canon 212. Pascite 1341. Canon 1389=.

Miscell.

Blog notices.

• Peters' Blog, 09 oct 2015, gone. ▪ My rebuttal of someone's position on something was pulled when he or she retracted the position.

• Peters' Blog, 25 nov 2014, here. ▪ Chronology of my comments on ecclesiastical cooperation with civil marriage. > 'Same-sex marriage'. Update: most of the materials listed on that page have been organized under Canon 1059, above.

• Peters' Blog, 03 oct 2012, here. ▪ Break from blogging while I attend the Synod on New Evangelization as peritus. > Canon 342.

• Peters' Blog, 26 dec 2011, here.

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Canon Law Blog migrating from Blogger to Wordpress.

• Peters' Blog, 27 apr 2010, here. ▪ Canon law blog operations.

• Peters' Blog, 02 apr 2007, here. ▪ Computer problems at Canon Law Blog.

• Peters' Blog, 13 jun 2006, here. ▪ Update on my treatments of the Schiavo-Centonze wedding. > Canon 1090.

The blog was noted in Our Sunday Visitor (12 feb 2012) 11.

Website notices.

• Peters' Blog, 15 jan 2011, here. ▪ Notice that my Studia Canonica article is now available at Canonlaw.info and a brief reply to Kandra who belittled the seriousness with which I addressed the issue. > Canon 277.

• Peters' Blog, 28 apr 2010 (1), here. ▪ Re: E. Peters, wbp Canonical questions, consultations, and advocacy, here.=

• Peters' Blog, 01 apr 2010, here. ▪ Re: E. Peters, wbp Roman Catholic Arch / Bishops of the USA, here. > Canon 377. Canon 151. Update: That page is no longer maintained.

• Peters' Blog, 16 mar 2010, here. ▪ Re: E. Peters, wbp Resources for understanding and applying Canon 915, here.

• Peters' Blog, 21 jan 2010, here. ▪ Re: proposed reading the Quinque Libri Decretalium, info here. Update: I did not complete this reading project.

• Peters' Blog, 10 oct 2007, here. ▪ Computer problems, comments on Cardinal Newman Society Guide to Choosing a Catholic College. > Notices.

• Peters' Blog, 01 jan 2007, here. ▪ Notice of E. Peters, wbp Resource Page on Ferraris, Prompta Biblioteca, here.

• Peters' Blog, 06 dec 2006, here. ▪ Notice for E. Peters, wbp Reading footnotes for the 1917 Code, here.

• Peters' Blog, 05 oct 2006, here. ▪ Announcing launch of E. Peters, wbp Excommunication Blotter. Note: That page is no longer maintained.

• Peters' Blog, 28 apr 2006, here. ▪ Re: Peters wbp =.

Publication notices.

• Peters' Blog, 08 apr 2014 (1), here. ▪ My three articles on Deaf ministry are now published. > Canon 383. Sacramental form. Irregularities.

• Peters' Blog, 02 oct 2012 (2), here. ▪ My article "Fencing the Altar" is now published at First Things. > Canon 915.

• Peters' Blog, 25 aug 2011, here. ▪ Publication of my article on Presbyterorum ordinis in the FCSQ. > Canon 277.

• Peters' Blog, 31 may 2011, here. ▪ When bad advice is now published. > HPR. Canon 1387=.

• Peters' Blog, 11 may 2011, here. ▪ My overview of the Cuomo Communion Controversy is now published in Catholic World Report.

• Peters' Blog, 05 nov 2009, here. ▪ Re publication of article on sign.

• Peters' Blog, 05 may 2006, here. ▪ Re: my defense of Daily and his decision to withhold ecclesiastical funeral rites from Gotti has been published. > Canon 1184. Gordon.

• Peters' Blog, 06 nov 2008, here. ▪ My article on the ordination of Deaf men in the twentieth century has been published.

• Peters' Blog, 26 jun 2008, here. ▪ Publication of my article on extending the Communion fast in Antiphon. > Canon 919.

• Peters' Blog, 25 sep 2007, here. ▪ Publication of my review of Medieval Church Law in Journal of Law and Religion. > Muller. Sommar. Pennington.

• Peters' Blog, 13 apr 2007, here. ▪ My review of Cenlamor and Miras introductory text on canon law for Studia Canonica will be positive.

• Peters' Blog, 07 nov 2006, here. ▪ Interview on excommunication. > Olson. Canon lawyer.

• Peters' Blog, 21 sep 2006, here. ▪ My short book on excommunication has been published. > Pascite 1331. Olson. Canon lawyer.

Public events notices.

• Peters' Blog, 27 mar 2007, here. ▪ Congratulations to Cdl Stickler on 70 years of priestly life. > Canon lawyer. Celibacy. Ferme. Scholar.

• Peters' Blog, 19 oct 2006, here. ▪ Requiescat in pace, Cdl Pompedda.> Rota. Signatura

• Peters' Blog, 26 jan 2010 (1), here. ▪ Re: upcoming conference for civil and canon lawyers. > Burke. Conn. Coughlin.

• Peters' Blog, 21 apr 2009, here. ▪ Carlson the canonist is a good choice for St. Louis. > CLSA. Burke. Dolan.

Comments on social a/o political matters.

• Peters' Blog, 17 nov 2015, here. ▪ What the devil derives from the Paris massacre. > Suicide. CCC 2282. CCC 2283. CCC 1033. Damnation. Condemnation. Unprovided death. CCC 1021. Blasphemy against the name of God.

• Peters' Blog, 27 aug 2015, here. ▪ Civil officials defending Planned Parenthood act as did Pontius Pilate. > Abortion. First Station of the Cross.

• Peters' Blog, 27 jun 2015, here. ▪ The Patriot-News banning op-eds and letters to the editor protesting Obergefell is stark exercise in ignorance. > Dred Scott. Micek. 'Same-sex marriage'.

• Peters' Blog, 26 jun 2015 (2), here. ▪ Wordpress' banner celebration of Obergefell makes one wonder how it would have celebrated Dred Scott or Plessy v. Ferguson. > 'Same-sex marriage'.

• Peters' Blog, 09 mar 2015, here. ▪ Rhetorical attacks on the liceity of the death penalty are putting pressure on Catholics to excuse themselves (or be dismissed) from criminal juries precisely where commitment to justice is most needed. > Long. CCC 2267. Davis. Prummer. Haring

• Peters' Blog, 12 may 2014, here. ▪ Harvard president Faust is wrong not not disallow a Black Mass organized by a student group. > CCC =.

• Peters' Blog, 09 apr 2014, here. ▪ No one has offered any evidence of what Sr Jane Dominic (Laurel) actually said at Charlotte Catholic High School. > Rush to judgment.

• Peters' Blog, 08 apr 2014 (2), here. ▪ Observations on two murders. > Mystery of evil.

• Peters' Blog, 26 jan 2010 (2), here ▪ Banning the Tebow-and-his-mom ad from Superbowl programming would be ridiculous.

• Peters' Blog, 01 apr 2013 (2), here; also, Christifidelis 31/2 (May 1, 2003) 4-5. ▪ Salmon's letter misrepresents the socializing role of various high school events and implicitly endorses same-sex relationships. > 'Same-sex marriage'. McQuaid.

• Peters' Blog, 19 jun 2011, here. ▪ Maureen Down can’t think straight. > Dolan. Hubbard. Cuomo. Luscombe.

• Peters' Blog, 27 aug 2008, here. ▪ Blocking traffic on public streets is not a good way to protest abortion. > Terry. Pro-Life.

• Peters' Blog, 14 mar 2007, here. ▪ The Nation comments on Mormon religion and Hughes psychological disorders are repulsive. > Sampson. Bigotry.

• Peters' Blog, 08 apr 2006, here. ▪ My essay against Botean’s condemnation of the Iraq war was included in Neo-Conned as a minority view thought I took no position on US involvement itself. > CCC 2309. Brumley.

• Peters' Blog,18 mar 2005, here. ▪ Suggesting an emergency fast for Terri Schiavo. > CCC 1969. Canon 2777. Pascite =.

• Peters' Blog, 08 mar 2005, here. ▪ Crocker and Crisis wronged good people and a praiseworthy practice when they ridiculed natural Family Planning. > Humanae vitae. Canon 1055. Gaudium et spes. Lumen gentium.

Moral decision-making.

• Peters' Blog, 22 feb 2014, here. ▪ Francis might have speaking carelessly but mere questions about faith and morals do not imply either too much or too little faith and the Church’s silence on certain points cannot be taken as endorsement of alternative positions. > Casuistry. Moral norms.

• Peters' Blog, 15 nov 2011, here. ▪ Catholic institutions may not facilitate occult practices. > CCC 2116. CCC 2117. St. Bonaventure University. 1917 CIC 2325. Dom Augustine. Clairvoyance. Occult.

• Peters' Blog, 26 apr 2007, here. ▪ Burke was correct to withdraw from the (St. Louis) Cdl. Glennon Children's Hospital board given its insistence on headlining a pro-abortion star for its fund-raising program. > Crowe.

• Peters' Blog, 05 jan 2007, here. ▪ Ashley's treatment was a travesty. > Pascite 1397=. Moral decision-making. CCC 2297. Seattle.

Personal notes.

• Peters' Blog, 16 may 2014, here. ▪ Galantino should not disparage Church teaching or faithful pro-lifers. > Personal. Canon 452.

• Peters' Blog, 18 jul 2013, here. ▪ Suggesting invocation of Felix Cappello for Thomas Peters. > Personal. Intercession for son.

• Peters' Blog, 13 jan 2013, here. ▪ Death of Paul D. > Personal. Intercession. Sheen. St Joseph.

• Peters' Blog, 28 nov 2011, here. ▪ Recommending Fairbairn’s text on Greek and Latin. > Personal. Latin. Greek.

• Peters' Blog, 16 apr 2009, here. ▪ Rest in peace Thomas Dillon. > Personal. Thomas Aquinas College. Great books.

• Peters' Blog, 13 apr 2008, here. ▪ A century of marriage among grandparents is a gift to grandchildren. > Personal.

• Peters' Blog, 02 oct 2006, here. ▪ Life Chain, Ann Arbor. > Personal. Pro-Life witness.

• Peters' Blog, 05 aug 2006, here. ▪ Some influential books in my life. > Personal.

Other.

• Peters' Blog, 22 mar 2012, here. ▪ Announcing launch of a canon law blog by MacDonald.

• Peters' Blog, 26 mar 2013, here. ▪ The Lenten foot fight is upon us. > Mandatum. Chrism Mass.

• Peters' Blog, 01 oct 2012 (1), here. ▪ Back from the Synod, grateful for prayers. > Canon 342. Martin.

• Peters' Blog, 28 aug 2007, here. ▪ Tom Monaghan’s approach to philanthropy, one that includes spite for some who opposed his machinations, does real harm to real people.

• Peters' Blog, 01 oct 2006, here. ▪ Rebuttal of BBC program trying to accuse Ratzinger of cover-up of clergy sexual misconduct. > Panorama. Doyle. Btw: This blog was later developed into an article for CWR.

• Peters' Blog, 26 sep 2006, here. ▪ St. Joseph foundation and its newsletter Christifidelis are worthy undertakings. > Wilson. Procedural law. Civil law foundations.

• Peters' Blog, 16 oct 2006, here. ▪ Humor, Sistine Chapel painting.

• Peters' Blog, 26 apr 2006, here. ▪ Praise for the April 2006 issue of Homiletic and Pastoral Review.

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• Peters' Blog, 22 sep 2014, here. ▪ Contradictory criticisms of the annulment process underscore how difficult real reform is. > Canon 1671. Canon 1095. Justice. Canon 1432. Canon 1682. Mandatory appeal. Benedict XIV.

• Peters' Blog, 29 apr 2014, here. ▪ Palin's remark about using water-boarding to baptize terrorists was in monumentally poor taste. > Kandra. CCC 2148.

• Peters' Blog, 23 apr 2014, here. ▪ Francis might have part of his telephone advice correct when he might have said divorced Catholics are not prohibited hcc. > Canon 915. drmcc.

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