canon law

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Recent Examples of canon law Prosecutors, for their part, insisted that the defense rights had all been respected, defended the legitimacy of the trial and Francis' executive decrees and reminded lawyers that the church's canon law forms the basis of Vatican law, not Italian legislation. Nicole Winfield, ajc, 4 Oct. 2021 The attorney, canon law specialist the Rev. Pius Pietrzyk, told the Tribune that some incidents — buying a cassock for a seminarian who couldn’t afford one, or reserving a hotel conference room where alumni of a Catholic high school club could play cards — were viewed as boundary violations. John Keilman, chicagotribune.com, 3 Jan. 2022 Francis remained in charge of the Vatican and the 1.3-billion strong Catholic Church, even while unconscious and in the hospital, according to canon law. Nicole Winfield, ajc, 8 June 2023 Burke, 73, holds a doctorate in canon law. Steven Martinez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2021 See all Example Sentences for canon law 
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Noun
  • At first, the girls are only in danger of being forced to listen to one man’s extremely pretentious opinions about religion, philosophy, culture, and yes, pop music, which is terrifying in itself.
    Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2024
  • So, our chats about his vision, strategy, and leadership philosophy for the Ferretti Group in the global-hyper-niche-ultra-luxury-yacht building business are never boring.
    Bill Springer, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Du Châtelet was searching for a grand synthesis of Newtonian, Cartesian, and Leibnizian ideas, in the way that Viennese visionaries of the nineteen-twenties hoped to unify all the sciences, and in the way that later thinkers tried to reconcile quantum physics with Einstein—and both with theology.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • For example, Jack Lillie, a musician, deferred to his ambitious wife, R. S., a gifted medium who traveled the American west lecturing about Spiritualist theology.
    Marissa C. Rhodes / Made by History, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The people who dominate these institutions demographically also tend to share the dominant ideologies.
    Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Nov. 2024
  • The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremist groups and movements, defines the ideology as one that suggests sheriffs have the power to circumvent the U.S. system of governmental checks and balances and make their own determinations about which laws are constitutional.
    Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024

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