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The Dicastery for Legislative Texts, formerly named Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, is a dicastery of the Roman Curia. It is distinct from the highest tribunal or court in the Church, which is the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura , and does not have law-making authority to the degree the Pope and the Holy See's tribunals do.
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A dicastery (/ d ɪ ˈ k æ s t ə r i /; from Greek: δικαστήριον, romanized: dikastērion, lit. 'law-court', from δικαστής , 'judge, juror') is the name of some departments in the Roman Curia of the Catholic Church .
The legal history of the Catholic Church is the history of Catholic canon law, the oldest continuously functioning legal system in the West. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Canon law originates much later than Roman law but predates the evolution of modern European civil law traditions.
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Dicastery for Culture and Education (8 P) Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (2 C, 2 P) Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (2 C, 1 P)
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