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The canon law of the Catholic Church is articulated in the legal code for the Latin Church [9] as well as a code for the Eastern Catholic Churches. [9] This canon law has principles of legal interpretation, [10] and coercive penalties. [11] It lacks civilly-binding force in most secular jurisdictions.
Canon law (from Ancient Greek: κανών, kanon, a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members.
to exercise in accordance with canon law the works proper to the institute while observing any conditions that the bishop has attached to his granting of consent; for clerical institutes to have a church in a place agreed on with the bishop and to perform sacred ministry in accordance with canon law.
The Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (CCEC; Latin: Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium, [1] abbreviated CCEO) is the title of the 1990 work which is a codification of the common portions of the canon law for the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches in the Catholic Church. It is divided into 30 titles and has a total of 1546 canons. [2]
On 25 January 1983, [3] with the apostolic constitution Sacrae disciplinae leges, [8] John Paul II promulgated the 1983 Code of Canon Law for all members of the Catholic Church who belonged to the Latin Church. [3] It entered into force the first Sunday of the following Advent, [3] which was 27 November 1983. [4]
Philosophy and theology shape the concepts and self-understanding of canon law as the law of both a human organization and as a supernatural entity, since the Catholic Church believes that Jesus Christ instituted the church by direct divine command, while the fundamental theory of canon law is a meta-discipline of the "triple relationship ...
More specifically, the term can refer to a version or translation of the Bible which is published with the Catholic Church's approval, in accordance with Catholic canon law. The current official version of the Catholic Church is the Nova Vulgata. According to the Decretum Gelasianum (a work written by an anonymous scholar between AD 519 and 553 ...
Catholic canon may refer to: Canon law of the Catholic Church. 1983 Code of Canon Law. 1917 Code of Canon Law; Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches; The Catholic Bible, canon of the books of the Bible recognised by the Catholic Church; Canon (clergy)