Susan Mulheron

Susan Mulheron

Susan Mulheron holds a licentiate in canon law from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. She has been serving as chancellor for Canonical Affairs for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis since 2013.

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A Latin-English edition of the Code of Canon Law is pictured on a bookshelf. (CNS/Nancy Phelan Wiechec)

For adult victims of sexual misconduct in the church, canon law is finally catching up

The real question, canon lawyer Susan Mulheron writes, is: How can we work to affect changes in the culture of the Catholic Church, which will ideally be codified in canon law as standard expectations and practice?

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