canon law

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Recent Examples of canon law Several bishops likened Pope Leo XIV to a fusion of Popes Francis and Benedict, noting his blend of intellectual rigor and pastoral warmth while highlighting his Augustinian background and canon law expertise. Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2025 Robert Francis Prevost attended Villanova University and Catholic Theological Union in Chicago before earning a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical College of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 8 May 2025 The edict was abrogated in 1918, according to canon law expert Edward Peters of Detroit’s Sacred Heart Major Seminary. Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 4 May 2025 That law, however, was abrogated in 1918, which means there is currently no canon law on the subject, per Edward Peters, a professor of canon law at Sacred Heart seminary in Detroit. Felix Salmon, Axios, 22 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for canon law
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Noun
  • At this year’s Latin Music Week, multiple companies will offer their expertise and their artists to discuss new philosophies and actions to develop artists for the long term.
    Leila Cobo, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2025
  • There was an aspect to the story that really hit my heart hard in Bruno Lacombe’s radical philosophy, which posits that modern humans have lost their essential connection to the primal elements of existence.
    Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Duns is chairman of Marquette's theology department.
    Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • As a teacher of theology, medicine, or law, she is not known.
    Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Lawmakers and experts have argued over whether ideology played a role in the shootings.
    Mitch Picasso , Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Democrats today are guided not by sober empiricism but by fanciful ideology.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025

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