Canon Lawyer, Ed Peters, whose blog is in my side bar, digs deeper into the marriage of Michael Schiavo, the former spouse of Terry Schiavo, who was dehyrdated to death in a swirl of controversy.
A closer canonical look at the Schiavo-Centonze marriage
I have expanded my earlier (23 Jan 2006) blog concerning potential canonical problems with the Schiavo-Centonze wedding and published those more developed observations in the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 29:2 (Summer 2006) pp. 6-8: "Canonical questions about the Schiavo-Centonze marriage". Together with my January 2004 essay from This Rock, these three short pieces set forth why I think that several important canonical and pastoral questions have been raised by a Schiavo-Centonze wedding taking place under Catholic auspices (21 Jan 2006).
Continue reading (links to current and previous documents will be found at Ed Peter's blog).