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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 .
After the archive of the Inquisition was returned to Rome in 1815, it expanded a great deal. Although the actual number of documents housed in the present archive of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith is not known because documents dated after Pope Leo XIII's death, in 1903, are still closed to researchers, there are known to be 4,500 documents available to scholars up to that point.
The Catholic Church utilizes the oldest continuously functioning legal system in the West, [1] much later than Roman law but predating the evolution of modern European civil law traditions. The history of Latin canon law can be divided into four periods: the jus antiquum, the jus novum, the jus novissimum and the Code of Canon Law. [2]
The dicastery was widely known for more than 300 years as “The Inquisition,” and one of its more formidable recent prefects was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, better known later as Pope Benedict XVI.
The Curia was created by Pope Urban II (r. 1088–1099). [5]Curia in medieval and later Latin usage means "court" in the sense of "royal court" rather than "court of law".". The Roman Curia is sometimes anglicized as the Court of Rome, as in the 1534 Act of Parliament that forbade appeals to it from Englan
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.