Last fall I left my job as a corporate lawyer and began studying canon law in Rome. Explaining my rationale to my colleagues wasn’t as difficult as I had imagined. Whether they were practicing Catholics, fallen-away Catholics, not-yet C … [Read more...]
About Michael J. Mazza
Dr. Mazza is a civil and canon lawyer who advocates on behalf of clerics, religious, and lay people. He can be reached at canonicaladvocacy.com. He has degrees from the College of St. Thomas (B.A., Theology, summa cum laude), the Notre Dame Apostolic Catechetical Institute (M.A., Religious Studies), the Marquette University Law School (J.D., summa cum laude), and the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce in Rome (J.C.L., magna cum laude, and J.C.D., summa cum laude). His doctoral thesis in canon law is entitled “The Right of a Cleric to Bona Fama” and is available on amazon.com.
Canon Law, Civil Law, and the Current Crisis in the Church
Reflections of a Civil Lawyer Studying Canon Law in Rome
November 25, 2019 by Michael J. Mazza
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