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    Tuesday, October 17, 2006

    Ed Peters' canonical thoughts on Rod Dreher's case

    I've been watching the Rod Dreher defection with everyone else, and today Ed Peters adds a couple canonical footnotes to Rod's unfortunate and sad decision:

    A few days ago, Dreher publicly announced that he had left the Catholic Church and joined the Russian Orthodox Church, this, apparently, being at some level his reaction to the clergy sex abuse crisis and its associated scandals ...

    ... In any case, here I highlight some of the canonical issues I think might be raised by Dreher's actions. Of course, Dreher and those who agree with him might find little of interest in my remarks, but I offer them as evidence that, if nothing else, canonical laws do correspond to real life situations. [More...]

    Personally, when Rod Dreher says, "I want to thank all of you Catholics, especially the priests, who have written me privately or publicly expressed your good wishes for me and my family in the path our journey towards Christ has taken us," I want to join my patron saint in saying, "We must just pray that when his head's finished turning, his face is to the front again."

    Amen?
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