(1) The document was ‘deep-sixed’ and the canonist was advised that he should look for another ministry.(2) This is the distinction of a canonist , not a theologian.(3) Like 99 percent of Catholics, I am neither theologian, canonist , nor clergyman.(4) the greatest canonist of his day(5) First, our June 1 editorial, ‘The Do-Nothings,’ refers to a Vatican canonist 's view that the rights of priests would be violated by some of the measures the U.S. bishops were proposing to take at their Dallas meeting.(6) It is for that reason he insists that the canonist exercises a church ministry - a ministry that ramifies to everything from liturgical celebration to pastoral strategies of various kinds.(7) Interest on money is forbidden; the prohibition of usury is, indeed, as Roscher says, the centre of the whole canonistic system of economy, as well as the foundation of a great part of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction.(8) Select quotations from Augustine's anti-Donatist writings enabled some medieval canonists to make him look as if he were justifying the stern measures against heretics adopted in the later middle ages.(9) The same change of perspective might equally apply in our attitudes about the canons, and canonists , generally.(10) However, the consensual theory of the Church canonists would have been attentive to and would have valorized ‘the freedom and autonomy of the individual in the crucial matter of marriage’.(11) Using the language of ‘rights’ within the church is often misleading, but since the canonists have chosen to address the question in this way, let us recall some recent history.(12) Whereas the Roman Law assigns to the term ‘intent to get married,’ an emotive or affective quality is what the canonists now sought to convey.(13) That Aquinas does not follow the canonists in explicitly naming defense against attack as a just cause for resort to force follows, I suggest, from his commitment to this larger conception of defense.(14) Her book, a masterful retrieval of the natural law perspective of medieval theologians and canonists , contributes significantly to current debates in fundamental moral theology.(15) Some canonists argued on the pope's authority as ‘vicar of Christ,’ because the pope, being something more than a man, can put asunder a marriage!(16) And, even then, a dissident antipapal council assembled in 1511 at Pisa, stimulating a great outflow of canonistic and theological writings in defence of the Conciliar theory.
