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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.
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.
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.
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]
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.
Regarding the canon law of the Catholic Church, canonists provide and obey rules for the interpretation and acceptation of words, in order that legislation is correctly understood and the extent of its obligation is determined.
Rescripts have the force of a particular law, i. e. only for the persons concerned; only occasionally, e. g., when they interpret or promulgate a general law, are they of universal application. Rescripts in forma gratiosa are effective from the date they bear; others only from the moment of execution.
1917 Code of Canon Law, code of canon law for the Catholic Latin Church from 1918 to 1983; 1983 Code of Canon Law, code of canon law for the Catholic Latin Church from 1983 to today; Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, code of canon law for the Catholic Eastern Church from 1991 to today; The Pedalion, an Eastern Orthodox treatise on canon ...