Six Questions on Excommunication
Replies to Ron Modras' six questions on excommunication from my friend and canon lawyer Ed Peters: No single individual, indeed, no medium-sized office of people, would suffice to provide adequate…
Abortion Case in Phoenix
From my friend and canon lawyer, Ed Peters: "Necessity" does not canonically excuse intrinsically evils acts like abortion I have offered a couple of responses to Fr. Thomas Doyle's recent…
Abortion & Confession
Any confessor can absolve penitents of abortion From time to time I am asked whether priests need special faculties to absolve penitents in abortion cases. Although the 1983 Code, in…