Edward Peters: A canonical look at the Holy See – China issue regarding episcopal appointments

Excommunication of SCOTUS Justices?

Edward Peters, Obergefell and canonical criminal law (via Fr. Z)

This professor too: Thomas Berg, Comments on Obergefell, the Marriage Holding, and Religious Liberty
Does Mirror of Justice not commit itself to orthodoxy and hold the members of the blog accountable accordingly? Or do they believe in an erroneous form of "academic freedom"?

This woman, too:
How can those who support gay rights remain in the Church? by Margery Eagan

And no doubt some columnists and Jesuits at America and other heterodox periodicals.

I think we should be able to follow his points by now.

Ed Peters, Some thoughts occasioned by Dcn. Ditewig's latest post

But there may be those who are interested in attacking strawmen, some because they are personally involved and others because they have a theological or polemical ax to grind.

Ed Peters continues

Why "Anglicanorum coetibus" does not control one's reading of Canon 277
My article “Diaconal Categories and Clerical Celibacy” is now available on-line

Dr. Ed Peters continues

Addressing questions on clerical continence requires attention to Holy Orders as well as to Matrimony
Four options regarding continence and married clergy in the West (the longer version)

Of course there are those Vox Novatians who have their own understanding of his arguments and his main points. Strawman, anyone? Then there are their guesses about his motivations (and character). They could get a better idea of what he is arguing from "Four Options" ("I think it very important, both for the operation of law and for the stability of the faith community, that such a complete change in clerical practice be formally recognized in law if it is genuine, or be reasonably but firmly removed from practice if it is not. . . .") and his blog posts, and by re-reading his original paper.

Kudos to Dr. Peters for attempting to discuss this civilly over at that website. What they need is not arguments but grace. Equating attention to canon law and advocacy for its coherence is not "legalism."

As for there being different theological anthropologies, which in turn give rise to different clerical disciplines...

More from Ed Peters

Debating complex points of law is hard enough; having to repudiate false quotations is too much (via Pertinacious Papist)

As one might expect, Dr. Peters has written quite a few other responses to those who have raised objections to his article, including:
Some thoughts on Dcn. Ditewig's comments on diaconal continence
The difference between personal status and the objective requirements of law

A blog post by Dr. Peters on the diaconate and celibacy

Dr. Ed Peters, Why Canon 277 § 3 does not allow bishops to exempt clerics from the obligation of continence (via Fr. Z)

"Permanent deacons are deacons."

Pertinacious Papist passes on some links concerning a thesis put forth by Dr. Edward Peters regarding the obligation to celibacy for all deacons. If the thesis is correct and the obligation is restated, that would close the "cheat" for Catholic men who are tempted to seek the "best of both worlds."