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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.
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 canon law of the Catholic Church is supreme in the civil legal system of Vatican City State. The Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, a dicastery of the Roman Curia and the highest canonical tribunal, is also the final court of cassation in the civil legal system of Vatican City State. Its competence includes appeals concerning ...
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The Dicastery for the Service of Charity, also called the Apostolic Alms Office, is a special expression of mercy and, starting from the option for the poor, the vulnerable and the excluded, it exercises in any part of the world the work of assistance and help towards them in the name of the Roman Pontiff, who in cases of particular indigence ...
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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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