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Canon and civil law

Law

Law answers questions of governance and never a question of doctrine. It is ordered to teaching: where it presupposes a teaching, the teaching must hold.

The kind of answer it gives: enacted

  • In the register of Abraham Joshua Heschel · October 2026

    A Plate of Ice

    A grandmother of thirty-three years in California and a stateless father in Ohio, both taken at routine check-ins. What the Law of Moses says about the stranger who has begotten children among you, why the Church’s own law has no category for an illegal person, and what a penalty without a crime is called.

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In The Benedict Year, a homeschool curriculum that walks this map, Law is Unit 11, weeks 31–33.

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