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  2. Mass stipend - Wikipedia

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    The large number of requests for Mass cards sometimes poses a dilemma, since an individual Mass is supposed to be celebrated for each card signed according to canon law. [ 6 ] [ 8 ] In a practice generally considered illicit, Mass cards are sometimes sold with a printed signature, without being linked to a specific priest or Mass being celebrated.

  3. Suspension (Catholic canonical penalty) - Wikipedia

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    The canon 1333 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law states there is three categories of things a suspension can affect: [3] Suspension, which can affect only clerics, prohibits: 1/ either all or some acts of the power of orders;

  4. Ecclesiastical crime - Wikipedia

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    An ecclesiastical crime is a crime related to the clergy where the crime is against canon law vis-à-vis civil law. The crime of simony is the ecclesiastical crime of paying for offices or positions in the hierarchy of a church.

  5. Canon law of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    This canon law has principles of legal interpretation, [10] and coercive penalties. [11] It lacks civilly-binding force in most secular jurisdictions. Those who are versed and skilled in canon law, and professors of canon law, are called canonists [12] [13] (or colloquially, canon lawyers [12] [14]). Canon law as a sacred science is called ...

  6. Validity and liceity (Catholic Church) - Wikipedia

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    Catholic canon law also lays down rules for licit, also called lawful, placing of the act, along with criteria to determine its validity or invalidity. Valid but illicit or valid but illegal ( Latin : valida sed illicita ) is a description applied in the Catholic Church to describe either an unauthorized celebration of a sacrament or an ...

  7. Penitential canons - Wikipedia

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    1917 Code of Canon Law; Ecclesiae Sanctae; 1983 Code of Canon Law; Other ... Contract law; Mass stipend; Stole fee; Temporalities; Law of persons. Person (Catholic ...

  8. Decretum Gratiani - Wikipedia

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    He has long been acclaimed as Pater Juris Canonici (Latin: "Father of Canon Law"), a title he shares with his successor St. Raymond of Penyafort. Gratian was the father and the first teacher of the scientia nova which he himself coined: the new canon law or ius novum. Many of his disciples have become highly renowned canonists.

  9. Obreption and subreption (Catholic canon law) - Wikipedia

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    Subreption in Catholic Canon law is "a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant", [3] "the obtainment of a dispensation or gift by concealment of the truth". [2] The terms are also used in the same senses as in Catholic canon law in Scots law. [2]