Dr. David P. Long, S.T.L., M.Phil., J.C.D. Headshot

School

  • School of Canon Law

    • Expertise

  • General Norms of the Church
  • History of Canon Law
  • Marriage Law and Matrimonial Jurisprudence
  • Religious Liberty Teaching Office of the Church
  • Theology of Canon Law

    • Professional Memberships

    • American Academy of Religion
    • Canadian Canon Law Society / Société canadienne de droit canonique
    • Canon Law Society of America
    • Canon Law Society of Great Britain and Ireland
    • Catholic Theological Society of America
    • College Theology Society
    • Eastern Regional Conference of Canonists
    • Fellowship of Catholic Scholars
    • Saint John Henry Newman Association of America

    Select Publications

    • “Newman, Canon Law, and Development: Quarrying Granite Rocks with Razors (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2025; ISBN 978-0813238920).
    • “John Henry Newman, Infallibility, and the Development of Christian Doctrine.” The Heythrop Journal 58:2 (March 2017), 181–194.
    • “Eucharistic Ecclesiology and Excommunication: A Critical Investigation of the Meaning and Praxis of Exclusion from the Sacrament of the Eucharist.” Ecclesiology 10:2 (2014), 205–228.
    • “John Henry Newman and the Consultation of the Faithful.” Newman Studies Journal 10:2 (Fall 2013), 18–31.