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The Other
Dr. Edward Peters
Professor of History at
University of Pennsylvania
Author of some of the
best books I never wrote
on law and religion.
Thank You
Over the years, many persons have
generously critiqued my writing one or more times. While it is
awkward to acknowledge them each time (if only because these
days, those who have improved a piece are considered by some to
agree with everything in the final version), I am especially
grateful to:
Jane Adolphe, Esq.
Jimmy Akin
Rev. Kenneth Baker, sj
Mark Brumley, MTS
Rev. Joseph Fox, op
Dcn. Patrick Graybill
Fr. Thomas Green
Rev. Joe Koterski, sj
Fr. Tom Margevicius
Angela Peters
Nade Peters
Nancy Peters
Rev. Paul Quay, sj
Charles Rice, Esq.
Dr. Janet Smith
Rev. Brian Van Hove, sj
Dr. R. V. Young, Jr.
and
those unsung heroes of academe, the anonymous
peer reviewers, who have always evaluated my work on its merits
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Biographical
Sketch
Dr. Edward N. Peters holds the Edmund Cardinal
Szoka Chair at
Sacred
Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, MI.
Born and raised in St. Louis, MO, Peters attended Chaminade College
Preparatory (Class of 1975) and went to Saint Louis University on a musicianship award
where he majored in Political Science (B.A. 1979). He was active in
campus pro-life activities and Catholic discussion groups, and for two years was a member of the schola cantorum of
Msgr. Martin B. Hellriegel's renowned Holy Cross Parish in North St. Louis.
Peters attended the University of Missouri at Columbia
School of Law where he took his J.D. degree in 1982. He was a Superior Oralist in First Year
Moot Court and began writing for religious and legal journals. He
remained active in pro-life work and during his third year of legal studies was a teaching assistant in Tate
Hall's Legal Research and Writing Program.
After
graduation from law school, he was admitted to the
Missouri
Bar Association, and following two years of working in California
for educational and religious television projects, he began studies in
canon law at the Catholic University of America
School of Religious Studies. He earned his licentiate degree (J.C.L.) in
1988, was named a Johannes Quasten Fellow for doctoral studies, and
completed doctoral course work in canon law in 1990. Peters' doctoral dissertation, Penal Procedural Law in the 1983 Code of Canon Law
was defended in August 1991.
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For some twelve years he served variously as diocesan
Director of the Office for Canonical
Affairs,
Vice-Chancellor and Chancellor,
Defender of the Bond, Collegial Judge for the diocesan and appellate
tribunals of the Dioceses of
Duluth, MN, (Province of St. Paul), and of
San Diego, CA,
(Province of Los Angeles), and Special Assistant to the Bishop.
Throughout this time Peters continued writing for
a wide variety of religious and secular
publications and
was a canonical consultant to numerous ecclesiastical institutions and
persons. He has made many
appearances in Catholic and secular media over
the years.
From 2001-2005 he taught at
the
(Graduate) Institute for Pastoral Theology (Canon Law, Liturgy &
Sacraments, Canonical Structures, and Ecclesiastical Latin)
based on the campus of
Ave Maria
College. In 2005 Peters was appointed to the Cdl. Szoka
Chair at
Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit.
In 2010, Dr. Peters was named a
Referendary of the Apostolic Signatura by Pope Benedict XVI |
Ribera's
"Christ among the Doctors of the Law"
He and his wife Angela
(ne้ Morelli) have six children, three god-children, and three
foster mission
children.
Click here to read Dr. Peters' Canon Law Blog, "In
Light of the Law".
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Some Great Learning Experiences
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I
wish there were a better way to express to my gratitude to these
and to so many others. Well, I hope they know.
Home
Dad
went to work everyday, no matter how he felt, and came home
every evening, leaving it behind.
Mom
never let me start something without finishing it.
St.
Jude's Elementary School
Mrs.
John Henry, 5th grade, Science.
Sr.
Mary Carol, csj. 8th grade, Math.
Chaminade
College Prep
Bro.
John Kruse, sm. 9th grade, Algebra.
Bro.
Frank Klapp, sm. 12th grade, Religion
(actually,
thinly disguised Chesterton).
St.
Louis University
Dr.
William McAvoy, Shakespeare. Instilled a life-long love.
Dr.
Irvin Arkin, Synoptic Gospels, Gospel of John.
Rev.
Donald Keefe, sj, Law and Morality. It changed my major, and my
career.
Dr.
Jean-Robert Leguey-Feilleux, International Terrorism. Decades
before others were analyzing it.
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The
School
of Law
University
of Missouri at Columbia
Prof.
William Franklin Fratcher, Property I, Anglo-American Legal
History (where I first met canon law).
Prof.
Edward Hunvald, Evidence (seared students with critical thinking skills).
Prof.
Timothy Heinz, Labor Law (a difficult subject, in which I had
virtually no interest, leapt to life).
Prof.
Grant Nelson, Constitutional Law.
Department
of Canon Law
Catholic
University of America
Rev.
Ladislaus Orsy, sj. Roman Law, Philosophy of Law, Theology of
Law.
Rev.
Robert Kennedy, Temporal Goods.
Sr.
Elizabeth McDonough, op., General Norms, Sanctions, Directed Readings (1
teacher, 1 student, concentrating on Vodola's study, with time
to talk about it.)
Rev.
John Lynch, Seminar in Sources (Gratian and the Decretists).
Dr.
William May, Natural Law (Theology Dept., two students, twice a
week in a smoky office, studying St. Thomas, Rommen,
d'Entreves, Carlyle, and Grisez, in a word, Heaven.)
Dr.
John Petruccione, Intensive Latin (Greek & Latin
Dept., doing a chapter of Collins
each day, watching the weaker drop
like flies, praying in Latin to survive till Christmas).
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Courses taught at Sacred Heart
STL 918, Particular Church
Fall
2008, Fall 2009
STL 949, Teaching Office
Winter
2009
AT 780, Intro. Canon Law
Fall 2009
THE 210, Intro. Liturgy & Sacraments
Fall 2006, Fall 2007
THE 219, Intro. to Catholic Church
Winter 2007, Winter 2010
LAT 121, Beginning Ecc. Latin 1
Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009
LAT 122, Beginning Ecc. Latin 2
Winter
2007, Winter 2008, Winter 2009, Winter 2010
LAT 211, Intermed. Ecc. Latin 1
Fall 2008
LAT 212, Intermed. Ecc. Latin 2
Winter 2009
DR 489, Intensive Intermed. Latin
Spring 2007
DR =, Canon Law
Winter 2008, Winter 2009
DR =, Latin Prose
Winter 2010
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