Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE:
AN OVERVIEW OF CANON LAW

CHAPTER TWO:
CANON LAW AND THE SEXUAL ABUSE CRISIS: Antinomianism, Legalism, and the Failure of the Rule of Law

CHAPTER THREE:
CANON LAW AND THE SEX ABUSE CRISIS CONTINUED: The Consequences of the Failure of the Rule of Law

CHAPTER FOUR:
CHURCH PROPERTY: A Comparison of the Theories of Property in Canon Law and Liberal Theory

CHAPTER FIVE:
CHURCH PROPERTY CONTINUED: The Diocese and Parish; Canon Law and State Law

CHAPTER SIX:
INDETERMINANCY IN CANON LAW: The Refusal of Holy Communion to Catholic Public Officials:
Canon 915: "A Central Case"

CHAPTER SEVEN:
THE INDETERMINACY CLAIM CONTINUED: Canon 915: "A Doubtful or Hard Case"?

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

About the Author

Reverend John J. Coughlin, O.F.M. , is a Franciscan Friar and Catholic priest. He presently serves as Professor of Law and Concurrent Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He holds a B.A. from Niagara University, an M.A. from Columbia University, a Th.M. from Princeton Seminary, a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a license, J.C.L., doctorate, J.C.D., in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He is the
author of dozens of scholarly articles and a frequent speaker at academic conferences. He also serves as a Visiting Professor of Canon Law at the Gregorian University.

Reviews

"[This book is] a timely and an excellent consideration on these themes and should be required reading for all jurists." --The Heythrop Journal