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t. e. Validity and liceity are concepts in the Catholic Church. Validity designates an action which produces the effects intended; an action which does not produce the effects intended is considered "invalid". [ 1 ][ 2 ]Liceity designates an action which has been performed legitimately; an action which has not been performed legitimately is ...
Licentiate of Canon Law (Latin: Juris Canonici Licentiatus; [1] JCL) is the title of an advanced graduate degree with canonical effects in the Roman Catholic Church offered by pontifical universities and ecclesiastical faculties of canon law. Licentiate is the title of a person who holds an academic degree called a licence.
The canon law of the Catholic Church (from Latin ius canonicum[ 1 ]) is "how the Church organizes and governs herself". [ 2 ] It is the system of laws and ecclesiastical legal principles made and enforced by the hierarchical authorities of the Catholic Church to regulate its external organization and government and to order and direct the ...
The philosophy, theology, and fundamental theory of Catholic canon law are the fields of philosophical, theological (ecclesiological), and legal scholarship which concern the place of canon law in the nature of the Catholic Church, both as a natural and as a supernatural entity. Philosophy and theology shape the concepts and self-understanding ...
The jurisprudence of Catholic canon law is the complex of legal theory, traditions, and interpretative principles of Catholic canon law. In the Latin Church, the jurisprudence of canon law was founded by Gratian in the 1140s with his Decretum. [1] In the Eastern Catholic canon law of the Eastern Catholic Churches, Photios holds a place similar ...
The Catechism of the Catholic Church promulgates the following: [1][2] You shall attend Mass on Sundays and holy days of obligation. You shall confess your sins at least once a year. You shall humbly receive your Creator in Holy Communion at least during the Easter season. You shall keep holy the holy days of obligation.
v. t. e. Catholic canon law is the set of rules and principles (laws) by which the Catholic Church is governed, through enforcement by governmental authorities. [clarification needed][citation needed] Law is also the field which concerns the creation and administration of laws.
An "authentic interpretation" is an official and authoritative interpretation of a statute issued by the legislator of the statute. In canon law an authentic interpretation has the force of law . Besides the Supreme Pontiff (Pope), who has plenary legislative power, several other authorities in the Catholic Church have various grades of ...