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  2. Canon law - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. List of Catholic canon law legal abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    c.— canon /canonum, or coram (see "cor." below) cc.—canons/canones. CCEO— Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium. CDF— Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith or Congregatio pro Doctrina Fidei. CDWDS— Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. ch.—chapter/caput.

  4. Canon law of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Legal history of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Outline of Catholic canon law - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Category:Canon law of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    C. Catholic Church legal terminology ‎ (3 C, 70 P) Catholic liturgical law ‎ (4 C, 19 P) Catholic matrimonial canon law ‎ (1 C, 25 P) Catholic particular churches sui iuris ‎ (2 C, 2 P) Catholic penal canon law ‎ (11 C, 24 P) Catholic procedural canon law ‎ (2 C, 8 P)

  8. Jurisprudence of Catholic canon law - Wikipedia

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    The jurisprudence of Catholic canon law is the complex of legal theory, traditions, and interpretative principles of Catholic canon law. In the Latin Church, the jurisprudence of canon law was founded by Gratian in the 1140s with his Decretum. [1] In the Eastern Catholic canon law of the Eastern Catholic Churches, Photios holds a place similar ...

  9. Philosophy, theology, and fundamental theory of Catholic ...

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    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 ...