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Busch’s platforming of Francis’ opponents in the past spoke louder than any deferential words, said theologian and canon lawyer Dawn Eden Goldstein, who writes for the moderate Catholic news site Where Peter Is.
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Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
Recently, a team of canon lawyers set out to propose norms to fill that legislative gap.
—Nicole Winfield, ajc, 7 June 2023
Gerlach sought independent counsel, Bobo said, but the bishop rejected three of her choices and instead appointed a canon lawyer without her consent or approval.
—Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 25 May 2023
Rather than being a theologian or a canon lawyer, his intellectual interest was history, and especially the Church-reforming work of St. Charles Borromeo in 16th-century Milan—a previous moment of social, political and ecclesiastical turmoil.
—George Weigel, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022
Condon, nephew of Catholic University President John Garvey, grew up in New Jersey and England, and worked in British politics for years before serving as a canon lawyer in U.S. dioceses.
—Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2021
Connell, also a canon lawyer who is now retired from his position with the archdiocese, said AP's findings convinced him that Catholic entities did not need government aid — especially when thousands of small businesses were permanently closing.
—Reese Dunklin and Michael Rezendes, Star Tribune, 4 Feb. 2021
Charles Reid, a canon lawyer and law professor at the University of St. Thomas, has been tracking the La Crosse case.
—Jean Hopfensperger, Star Tribune, 14 Sep. 2020
Both Opus Bono and Men of Melchizedek now list the same canon lawyer, the Rev. David L. Deibel, as their chairman.
—Martha Mendoza, Washington Post, 29 July 2019
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Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2023
Recently, a team of canon lawyers set out to propose norms to fill that legislative gap.
—Nicole Winfield, ajc, 7 June 2023
Gerlach sought independent counsel, Bobo said, but the bishop rejected three of her choices and instead appointed a canon lawyer without her consent or approval.
—Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 25 May 2023
Rather than being a theologian or a canon lawyer, his intellectual interest was history, and especially the Church-reforming work of St. Charles Borromeo in 16th-century Milan—a previous moment of social, political and ecclesiastical turmoil.
—George Weigel, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022
Condon, nephew of Catholic University President John Garvey, grew up in New Jersey and England, and worked in British politics for years before serving as a canon lawyer in U.S. dioceses.
—Anchorage Daily News, 25 July 2021
Connell, also a canon lawyer who is now retired from his position with the archdiocese, said AP's findings convinced him that Catholic entities did not need government aid — especially when thousands of small businesses were permanently closing.
—Reese Dunklin and Michael Rezendes, Star Tribune, 4 Feb. 2021
Charles Reid, a canon lawyer and law professor at the University of St. Thomas, has been tracking the La Crosse case.
—Jean Hopfensperger, Star Tribune, 14 Sep. 2020
Both Opus Bono and Men of Melchizedek now list the same canon lawyer, the Rev. David L. Deibel, as their chairman.
—Martha Mendoza, Washington Post, 29 July 2019
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