enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Legal status of the Holy See - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_the_Holy_See

    The legal status of the Holy See, the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in Rome, both in state practice and according to the writing of modern legal scholars, is that of a full subject of public international law, with rights and duties analogous to those of states.

  3. Holy See–United States relations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_See–United_States...

    Due to these rumors, the United States broke off diplomatic relations with the Holy See. [2] [3] In his June 1908 apostolic constitution, Sapienti Consilio, Pope Pius X decreed that as of November 3 that year, the Catholic Church in the United States would no longer be supervised by the Vatican's missionary agency, the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (Propaganda Fide), and would ...

  4. Doe v. Holy See - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doe_v._Holy_See

    Holy See, 557 F.3d 1066 (9th Cir. 2009), was a lawsuit involving the sovereign immunity status of the Holy See in relation to the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States. The threshold question of law in the case was whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act allows the Holy See , a sovereign state in international law, to be sued ...

  5. Holy See - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_See

    The Holy See [7] [8] (Latin: Sancta Sedes, lit. 'Holy Chair [9] ', Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈsaŋkta ˈsedes]; Italian: Santa Sede [ˈsanta ˈsɛːde]), also called the See of Rome, the Petrine See or the Apostolic See, [10] is the central governing body of the Catholic Church and the Vatican City State. [11]

  6. Exemption (Catholic canon law) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exemption_(Catholic_canon_law)

    Originally, according to canon law, all the residents of a diocese, as well as all diocesan institutions, were under the authority of the local bishop. Following complaints by monasteries that bishops treated them oppressively, they were taken under the protection of synods, princes and popes.

  7. Apostolic Nunciature to the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic_Nunciature_to...

    The nuncio serves both as the ambassador of the Holy See to the government of the United States and as delegate and point-of-contact between the Catholic hierarchy in America and the pope. The Apostolic Nunciature is an administrative center of the Catholic Church in the United States.

  8. Law of Vatican City - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Vatican_City

    The Promoter of Justice of the Court of Appeals of Vatican City is currently, since his appointment by Pope Francis on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, Professor Raffaele Coppola, Professor of the Law Faculty at the State University of Bari in Bari, Italy, and a member of the Bar for canon and civil law in the Holy See. [22]

  9. Apostolic nunciature - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic_Nunciature

    A papal nuncio (officially known as an apostolic nuncio) is a permanent diplomatic representative (head of diplomatic mission) of the Holy See to a state or to one of two international intergovernmental organizations, the European Union or ASEAN, having the rank of an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, and the ecclesiastical rank of ...