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e. The 1983 Code of Canon Law (abbreviated 1983 CIC from its Latin title Codex Iuris Canonici), also called the Johanno-Pauline Code, [1][2] is the "fundamental body of ecclesiastical laws for the Latin Church ". [3] It is the second and current comprehensive codification of canonical legislation for the Latin Church of the Catholic Church.
The philosophy, theology, and fundamental theory of Catholic canon law are the fields of philosophical, theological (ecclesiological), and legal scholarship which concern the place of canon law in the nature of the Catholic Church, both as a natural and as a supernatural entity. Philosophy and theology shape the concepts and self-understanding ...
The Catholic Church utilizes the oldest continuously functioning legal system in the West, [1] much later than Roman law but predating the evolution of modern European civil law traditions. The history of Latin canon law can be divided into four periods: the jus antiquum, the jus novum, the jus novissimum and the Code of Canon Law. [2]
v. t. e. The canon law of the Catholic Church (from Latin ius canonicum[1]) is "how the Church organizes and governs herself". [2] It is the system of laws and ecclesiastical legal principles made and enforced by the hierarchical authorities of the Catholic Church to regulate its external organization and government and to order and direct the ...
v. t. e. Catholic canon law is the set of rules and principles (laws) by which the Catholic Church is governed, through enforcement by governmental authorities. [clarification needed][citation needed] Law is also the field which concerns the creation and administration of laws.
Violardo then taught canon law (Book III) at the Pontifical Lateran University until 1964, serving as dean of the faculty of Canon Law as well. After working as auditor of the French nunciature from February to July 1938, he entered the Apostolic Signatura in the Roman Curia , as Promoter of Justice; he later became a prelate (23 April 1939 ...
In the Catholic Church, canon law is the system of laws and legal principles made and enforced by the church's hierarchical authorities to regulate its external organization and government and to order and direct the activities of Catholics toward the mission of the church. [ 10 ] It was the first modern Western legal system [ 11 ] and is the ...
A ferendae sententiae penalty is a penalty that is inflicted on a guilty party only after a case has been brought and decided by an authority in the Church. [2] The 1983 Code of Canon Law, which binds Catholics of the Latin Church, inflicts latae sententiae censures for certain forbidden actions. The current canon law that binds members of the ...