catholic law

I used to be a catholic and now I am a protestant, but my boyfriend is still catholic and we are unsure what the book of the canon law really is? would someone please help us? Thank you!

Canon Law is the ecclesiastical, or church, law of the Catholic Church. Catholic ecclesiastical law is a fully developed legal system, with all the necessary elements: courts, lawyers, judges, precedent, a fully articulated legal code and principles of legal interpretation.

In the Catholic church, the canons of the councils were gathered together into collections as early as 1234 C.E.

Much of the jurisprudential style was adapted from the Roman Law code of Justinian. As a result, courts in the Catholic Church tend to follow the Roman Law style of the continent of Europe, featuring collegiate panels of judges, a somewhat neutral presumption before verdict, and an investigative form of proceeding, called "inquisitorial", from the Latin "inquirere", to enquire.

This is in contrast to the adversarial form of proceeding found in the Common Law jurisdictions of British and American law, which feature juries, single, neutral judges, etc.

In the 13th century, the Catholic Church began attempting to collect and organize canon law, which after a millennium of development had become a complex and difficult system of interpretation and cross-referencing.

The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici or CIC) was actually the first instance of a new code completely re-written in a systematic fashion, reduced to a single book or "codex" for ease of use. It took effect in November 1918.

After the sweeping reforms of the Second Vatican Council so much had changed in the Church that the council fathers wrote into the documents that the code be completely revised. After decades of discussion and numerous drafts, the project was nearly complete upon the death of Paul VI in 1978. Later that year when John Paul II had become pope, he brought further major changes to the code. The new revision, (CIC 1982) took effect in 1983.

Pope John Paul II promulgated the revised and presently binding Code of Canon Law for all of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, with exception of the Eastern Catholic Churches.

These Eastern Rites within the Catholic Church have a separate Code of Canon Law, called the CCEO (Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches) incorporating certain differences in the hierarchical, administrative and judicial fora.

The Code of Canon Law: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_I NDEX.HTM

With love in Christ.

2009-04-19 18:51:06 by purelife

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the girl is not ready to convert to catholic belief.Hence the marriage cannot be conjugated in RC church.Also Does muslim law allow girls (she is a Bori muslim )to convert to other religion...

The girl does not need to convert to the Catholic faith for the wedding to take place in a Catholic Church. the general rule is that the wedding takes place in the bride's parish church, but if the bride is not Catholic, it can take place in the groom's church, or anywhere else with the permission of the pastor of the Catholic party.

I don't know muslim law at all, but I presume that no religion has a law that allows people to convert to another religion. That would kind of be like defeating the purpose of that religion.

2008-12-16 22:24:08 by Shasha F

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Canon law is church law, especially Roman Catholic law.

IIt's called a Cathechist. At least I think it is. I like reading the Catechisms for fun. It's like reading the Bible but it explains everything at the same time.

And I'm not weird, just highly educated which helps when people everyday attack your religion.

2008-04-06 12:02:27 by sgfrd2000

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If you could cite where you got your answers it would be greatly appreciated!

A few things where the Catholic Church has made the world a better and brighter place are:
+ Relief from the Barbarian invasions of the early middle ages
+ Rescued Christian and pre-christian literature
+ Spread agricultural and animal husbandry knowledge
+ Started and protected universities
+ Sponsored and supported science and medicine
+ Created International Law theory
+ Developed and sponsored modern economic theory
+ Invented charity as we know it
+ Codified, expanded, and improved Western Law
+ Western Morality
+ Created just war theory

I suggest you read the book "How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization" by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. http://www.catholiceducation.org/article s/history/world/wh0101.html

With love in Christ.

2008-09-02 07:54:59 by Alexis D

If anyone could just please give me references to answer this question. Thank you all VERY MUCH! :)

Or perhaps you could answer it yourself.. ;)

Of course, again, references are HEAVILY APPRECIATED.

cheers!

The Catholic Church will observe the marriage guidelines of the country in which it resides (within reason).

With love in Christ.

2009-07-27 11:32:30 by TheBeatles