A HANDBOOK ON CANON LAW
Second updated edition
Joseph T. Martín de Agar
© 1996 José Tomás Martín de Agar, Piazza S. Apollinare, 49 – 00186 Roma (Italy) martinagar@pusc.it
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Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Foreword
General Basic Bibliography
Chapter I. Canon Law
1. The Meanings of Ius
2. Basis of the Right
3. Church and Law
4. Divine Law and Human Law
5. The History of Canon Law
A) The First Millennium
B) Classical Canon Law
C) The Modern Era
D) The Contemporary Period
The Second Vatican Council
The Code of Canon Law of 1983
The Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (CCEO)
Chapter II. The Sources of Canon Law
1. Norms and Juridical Acts
2. Canonical Norms
3. Law
A) Types of Law
Divine Law and Human Law
General and Particular Laws
Territorial Law and Personal Law
Invalidating and Incapacitating Laws (c. 10)
B) Promulgation
C) Retroactivity
4. Custom
Types of customs
5. Administrative Norms
A) General Executory Decrees (cc. 31–33)
B) Instructions (c. 34)
6. Statutes and Rules of Order
A) Statutes
B) Rules of Order
7. Singular Administrative Acts
A) Singular Decrees
B) Singular Precepts
C) Rescripts
Privilege
Dispensation
8. Judicial Acts
9. Private Juridical Acts (cc. 124–128)
Chapter III. Who Are Subjects in Canon Law?
1. The Physical Person (cc. 96–112)
2. The Juridical Person (cc. 113–123)
A) Corporations and Foundations (c. 115)
B) Public and Private Juridical Persons
Chapter IV. The Constitution of the Church
1. Constitutional Principles
A) The Principle of Equality
B) The Principle of Variety
C) The Institutional Principle
2. The Fundamental Rights and Duties of the Faithful
3. Power and Its Exercise in the Church
4. Canonical regulation and the power of governance
A) Distinction of Functions
B) Ordinary Power (Proper or Vicariate) and Ordinaries
C) Delegated Power
D) Competence
E) External Forum and Internal Forum
F) The Habitual Faculties
G) Substitution of Jurisdiction
Chapter V. The People of God. Its Social Structure
1. The People of God
2. The Lay Faithful
3. Principal Obligations and Rights of the Laity
4. Personal Status of Sacred Ministers
A) The Formation of Clerics
B) Incardination of Clerics
C) Rights and Duties of Clerics
D) Loss of the Clerical State
5. Associations of the Faithful
A) Types of Associations
B) Public Associations
C) Private Associations of the Faithful
Chapter VI. The People of God. Its Hierarchical Structure (Government and Organization of the Church)
1. The Concepts of Ecclesiastical Organization
A) Ecclesiastical Office
B) The Conferral of the Office
2. The Universal and Particular Dimensions of the Church
3. The Supreme Power in the Church
A) The College of Bishops
The Ecumenical Council
B) The Roman Pontiff
4. Institutions for the Government of the Universal Church
5. The Particular Churches
A) The Diocese
B) Other Ecclesiastical Circumscriptions Similar to the Diocese
6. Government and Organization of the Diocese
A) The Diocesan Bishop (cc. 381–402)
B) Institutions and Offices for the Government of the Diocese
Coadjutor and Auxiliary Bishops (cc. 403–411)
The Diocesan Synod (cc. 460–468)
The Diocesan Curia (cc. 469–474)
The Diocesan Vicars (cc. 475–481)
The Finance Committee (cc. 492 and 493)
The Diocesan Financial Administrator (c. 494)
The Council of Priests (cc. 495–501)
The College of Consultors (c. 502)
The Chapter of Canons (cc. 503–510)
The Pastoral Council (cc. 511–514)
C) The Parish (cc. 515–552)
D) Vicars Forane (cc. 553–555)
E) Rectors of Churches (cc. 556–563)
F) Chaplains (cc. 564–572)
7. Organisms Above the Diocesan Level
A) The Ecclesiastical Province
B) The Ecclesiastical Region
C) Particular Councils
D) The Conferences of Bishops
Chapter VII. Consecrated Life
1. Institutes of Consecrated Life
A) Religious Institutes
The Religious
B) Secular Institutes
2. Societies of Apostolic Life (cc. 731–746)
Chapter VIII. The Means of Salvation. The Word of God
1. The Teaching Function
A) The Ecclesiastical Magisterium of the Church
Obligations Concerning Catholic Doctrine
B) Ecumenism
C) The Ministry of the Divine Word
Preaching (cc. 762–772)
Catechesis
Missions
D) Catholic Education
The Teaching of the Catholic Religion
Catholic Schools
Catholic Universities and Other Institutes of Higher Learning
Ecclesiastical Universities and Faculties
E) Means of Communication and Books
Chapter IX. The Means of Salvation. Divine Worship
1. The Sanctifying Office in the Church
2. The Sacraments
A) Baptism
B) Confirmation
C) The Holy Eucharist
The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
Eucharistic Communion
Conservation and Veneration of the Most Holy Eucharist
Offerings for the Celebration of the Mass (cc. 945–958)
D) The Sacrament of Penance
Collective Absolution (cc. 961–963)
Indulgences (cc. 992–997)
E) The Anointing of the Sick
F) The Sacrament of Orders
3. Marriage
A) General Concepts
B) Matrimonial Consent
Incapacity
Ignorance
Error of Law
Error of Fact
Deceit (c. 1098)
Simulation (c. 1101)
Conditions (c. 1102)
Violence and Fear
C) Impediments
The Impediments in Particular
D) The Form of Marriage
E) Effects of Marriage
F) Dissolution of the Marriage Bond
Dispensation of Non-Consummated Marriage (c. 1142)
Dissolution in Favor of the Faith (cc. 1143–1150)
G) Separation of the Spouses
H) Convalidation of the Marriage
Simple Convalidation (cc. 1156–1160)
Retroactive Validation (Radical Sanation, cc. 1161–1165)
I) Pastoral Care and Preparation for Marriage (cc. 1063–1072)
4. Other Acts of Divine Worship
A) Sacramentals (cc. 1166–1172)
B) The Liturgy of the Hours (cc. 1173–1175)
C) Church Funerals (cc. 1176–1185)
D) Veneration of the Saints, of Sacred Images and of Relics (c. 1186–1190)
E) Vows and Oaths (cc. 1191–1204)
5. Sacred Places and Times
A) Sacred Places
Various Sacred Places
B) Sacred Times
Chapter X. The Temporal Goods of the Church. Patrimonial Canon Law
1. Goods
2. The Acquisition of Goods
3. Administration of Ecclesiastical Goods
4. Alienation of Ecclesiastical Goods
5. Pious Dispositions and Pious Foundations
Chapter XI. Penal Canon Law
1. Offences
2. The Offender
3. Ecclesiastical Penalties
A) Censures
B) Expiatory Penalties
C) Penal Remedies and Penances
4. The Application of Penalties
5. Cessation of Penalties
6. Specific Offences
Chapter XII. Procedural Law
1. Judicial Organization
2. The Process
A) The Parties
B) The Competence of the Tribunal
3. The Carrying Out of the Process
A) The Introductory Stage (cc. 1501–1525)
B) The Evidentiary or Probatory Stage. Proofs (cc. 1526–1586)
C) The Publication of the Acts, the Conclusion of the Case, and the Pleadings (cc. 1598–1606)
D) The Judicial Decision (cc. 1607–1618)
4. Challenging the Judgment
A) Appeal (cc. 1628–1640)
Adjudged Matter (res iudicata)
B) Complaint of Nullity (cc. 1619–1627)
C) Total Reinstatement (restitutio in integrum) (cc. 1645–1648)
5. The Execution of the Judgment (cc. 1650–1655)
6. The Oral Contentious Process
7. Special Processes
A) Penal Processes (cc. 1717–1731)
8. Administrative Justice (cc. 1732–1739)
A) The Administrative Recourse
B) Contentious Administrative Recourse
Chapter XIII. Relations Between the Church and the Political Community
1. Christian Dualism
2. Historical Interpretations of Dualism
3. The Second Vatican Council
Religious Liberty
4. Various Aspects of the Mission of the Church with Regard to the World