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canon law Noun the body of laws of a Christian Church
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| As Archbishop Terence Finlay hoped (Archbishop weds lesbian couple, November Anglican Journal), I have reflected carefully on his decision to marry his lesbian friends--this, despite the fact that this is contrary to canon law, which apparently does not apply to archbishops, but only to more lowly clergy When asked in a television interview broadcast in August about the place of women in the church, he noted with approval the influence of women in Catholic history but drew attention to a "juridical problem: according to canon law the power to take legally binding decisions is limited to sacred orders. When I studied canon law, celibacy was defined as the "state of not being married" (the Latin caelibatus means "unmarried"). |
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