...currently serves as chancellor and judicial vicar of the Diocese, and is pastor of St. Benedict in Duluth. He received his canon law degree in 2007.Jacobson is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School. He practices law in Hibbing and speaks...

...priests right now. With priests in such short supply and overworked as they are, they could call people like me. Catholic canon law allows for that. Because they (celibate priests) can only do so much." In a recent letter to the editor he wrote...

...their efforts to demonize. And in 1998 the pope issued the document Ad Tuendam Fidem, which is an incorporation into canon law the requirement of obedience to the pope by all Christians on such doctrines as abortion. Dennis G. Gordon Nisswa Barney...

...death Aug. 26. By definition, a pope suffering a severe stroke or mental illness cannot simply step down, because canon law specifies a person must be of sound mind to resign a church office. Some think the Holy Spirit wouldn't allow such...

...John's Episcopal is the second of Bennison's 162 parishes to resist a regular visitation by the bishop, required under canon law. Episcopal Church delegates at a convention last year passed a resolution acknowledging the existence of unwed Episcopal...

...Jane Holmes Dixon of Washington, D.C., of violating canon law by trying to block them from hiring a conservative priest...though it is under Dixon's diocese. Christ Church claims canon law allowed Dixon only 30 days after Edwards' December appointment...

...says, "in some local situations, generous, intelligent solutions have been sought. The legislation of the Code of Canon Law has itself provided new possibilities, which however, must be correctly applied, so as not to fall into the ambiguity...

...prosecution in civil courts. Church, or canon, law requires the tribunals to meet behind...afforded to priests by worldwide canon law. The proposed revisions, drafted...Dallas policy appeared to ignore canon law's statute of limitations on sexual...

...church. Egan, a Chicago-area native and expert on canon law, is well known at the Holy See after years of work at...University, where he went on to obtain a doctorate in canon law. He served from 1972 to 1985 on the Vatican tribunal...

...Some aspects of a complex discussion: Catholic policy was defined in a 1976 Vatican decree, reaffirmed since in the canon law code, the catechism and papal statements. Rome says it follows the church's "unbroken tradition" and the example...