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Friday, January 25, 2008

A weekend double dose of CanonLawBloggery

First up, that story of the uppity St. Louis Coach that is trying to play hardball with Archbishop Burke:

I'm not making this up.

Jesuit-run St. Louis University's basketball coach Rick Majerus (yes, a basketball coach) is telling St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke (yes, the canonist archbishop), to mind his own business regarding Majerus' outspoken support for (get ready for it) abortion and experimentation on embryonic humans! If it weren't that expressing support for such deeply offensive conduct is so deadly serious, I'd be laughing. Read more about it at here.

Next, the Code of Canon Law for the Roman Catholic Church turns 25 today. Many happy returns!

The psalmist sings "Happy is the man . . . whose delight is the law of the Lord; on his law he meditates day and night." (I: 1,3). The Psalmist is right.

Twenty-five years ago today, Pope John Paul II promulgated the apostolic constitution Sacrae disciplinae leges and with it the revised Code of Canon Law for the Roman Catholic Church. It is a marvelous achievement, all the more so, I suggest, because it was developed during one of the most intense periods of antinomianism the Church ever suffered. Read more about it here.

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