Synod diecezjalny - narzędziem odnowy Kościoła partykularnego

On March 19, 1997, an instruction entitled ‘De Synodis Dioecesanis Agendis‘ was issued jointly by the Congregation for Bishops and the Congregation for Evangelization of Peoples. This Instruction is based on the regulations of the Code of Canon Law published in 1983. In the light of the new Instruction, a Diocesan Synod is to be an instrument of renewal of religious life, pastoral ministry and of the particular Church Law. The entire community of Gods People should be envolved in the works of a Diocesan Synod: its priests, the religious and the laity. They should participate in its works on all stages - in praparations, deliberations and in fulfilment of the resolutions. A Diocesan Synod, understood like this, has the pastoral character and its legislative function is utilized for the pastoral ministry. While a Synod is in session, the Diocesan bishop is the only legislator; other participants -through their advisory voice - take part in preparing the synodal law.

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Пастырское служении для разведённых в „Amoris Laetitia”

Ius Matrimoniale ◽

10.21697/im.2019.30.4.03 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 30 (4) ◽

pp. 37-53

Author(s):

Pavlo Basystyi

Keyword(s):

Canon Law ◽

Pastoral Ministry ◽

Evolutionary Process ◽

Church Community ◽

Code Of Canon Law ◽

Civil Marriage ◽

Points Of View ◽

The Church ◽

Amoris Laetitia

In this article, the author tried to present the topic of the pastoral ministry concept’s development for people living without Holy Matrimony by the example of the previous Code of Canon Law of 1917 and New Code of Canon Law of 1983. Influence on changing the situation of those living in a civil marriage or divorced and remarried poste-synodal Apostolic Exhortations „Familiaris Consortio” of 1981 and „Amoris Laetitia” of 2016. According to the author, the opportunity to join the Sacraments of the Church, prescribed in the last post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation are primarily a consequence of the evolutionary process rather than revolutionary innovations, although there are many different points of view on this topic. That is why the exhortation „Amoris Laetitia” talks about accompanying, discerning and integrating weakness, but in confidentiality. The important things, according to the author, are letters from individual bishops or Episcopal Conferences that have supported the Holy Father and have already taken advantage of the prescribed opportunities helping their parishioners to return to the church community and become actively involved in its life.

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Unions in Medieval Church Law as the Basis for Description of the Legal Nature of the Polish-Lithuanian Union

Krakowskie Studia z Historii Państwa i Prawa ◽

10.4467/20844131ks.20.019.12515 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 257-271

Author(s):

Wacław Uruszczak

Keyword(s):

Middle Ages ◽

Canon Law ◽

Code Of Canon Law ◽

Canonical Models ◽

Medieval Church ◽

Political Relationships ◽

Legal Nature ◽

Church Law ◽

Grand Duchy Of Lithuania ◽

Grand Duchy

In church law, the union of churches (unio ecclesiarum) concerned the merger of two and more dioceses under the same bishop. In the Middle Ages, canonists were already pointing to three types of union: 1) aeque principalis; 2) unio per subiectionem, when one of the churches was subject to the other and thus the episcopal dignity remained only in that one, and finally, the third kind, called 3) unio per extinctionem, when two particular churches, usually dioceses, were merged into a single new one. The canonical achievements in the field of union of churches and benefices were collected and summarized, among others, in the treatise De unionibus ecclesiarum atque beneficiorum by Nicolaus Thilen, and in the work of Anaclet Reiffenstuel entitled Ius canonicum universum. The three types of union of churches and benefices presented above, distinguished by their mergers, were adopted into the Code of Canon Law of 1917 (canons 1419 and 1420). The 450th anniversary of the union concluded on July 1, 1569 in Lublin was celebrated in 2019. As a result of this union the Kingdom of Poland, called the Crown, merged with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The canonical models of the union of churches and benefices, developed in medieval canon law, are important for a closer description of the essence of this relationship, starting with the first of them, i.e. the union concluded in 1385 in Krevo. The political relationships established between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania largely corresponded to the three canonical models of the church union indicated above, i.e. unio aeque principalis (1385), unio per subiectionem (1413) and unio per extinctionem seu translationem (1569).

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“Person” in the Law of Religious [Institutes]

Philosophy and Canon Law ◽

10.31261/pacl.2021.07.2.07 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Damián Němec

Keyword(s):

Canon Law ◽

Religious Life ◽

Human Person ◽

Legal Regulation ◽

Religious Congregations ◽

Code Of Canon Law ◽

Consecrated Life ◽

Religious Institutes ◽

The Law ◽

The Government

The emphasis on the human person and his dignity was significantly applied in the new regulation of the law of consecrated life, which is dealt with in the new Code of Canon Law of 1983 in integrum compared to the previous Code of Canon Law of 1917. This paper describes only some of the changes in the law of religious institutes in the Latin Church.The first section regards mainly the person who has taken religious vows and focuses on the question of religious vows as the basis of religious life. It also discusses confessors viewed as a necessary tool for the renewal of religious life as well as modifications in the concept of poverty as a very important element of religious life. The second section focuses on the government of religious institutes, discussing the strengthened position of internal superiors over external superiors in religious congregations, the strengthened position of the superior of monasteries of nuns, and the extended powers of superiors on release from a religious institute due to illegitimate absence from a religious house.As this is in some cases a very recent legal regulation, the author does not hesitate to express his critical observations.

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