Syllabus
1) The concept and subject of canon law, its specific features
2) Systematics of the Code of Canon Law (CIC/1983); canones praeliminares
3) Church laws and other canonical normative legal acts; leges canonizatae
4) Instructions, statutes and rules of procedure
5) Legal customs (concept, types, conditions and ways of extinction)
6) Individual administrative acts (decrees, rescripts)
7) Legal personality of natural and legal persons
8) Legal action and conditions of its validity
9) Public power in the Church (concept and classification); forum externum and forum internum
10) Potestas ordinaria and delegata, its extinction; tripartice of jurisdiction
11) Supplementary executive power (principle „supplet Ecclesia“)
12) Officium ecclesiasticum (concept, occupation, disposal)
13) Time in canon law, its counting; prescription
14) Constitutional canon law
15) Christians (lay and clergy), their basic rights and duties
16) Education and incardination of clergy; priestly seminary; the loss of the spiritual state
17) Christian consortia (concept and classification, legal status); personal prelature
18) Pope (legal status in the Church, way of choice)
19) Collegium episcoporum; ecumenical council and its legal status
20) Bishops' Synod and its Legal Status; General (ordinary and extraordinary) and special assemblies
21) Cardinals andCardinalCollege
22) Roman Curia (legal status and structure)
23) The concept and types of local churches; diocese
24) Diocesan Bishop (basic powers and duties)
25) Titular bishops; episcopus coadiutor and auxiliarius
26) Interim Administration of the Diocese (sede impedita, sede vacante); administrator of diocese
27)ChurchProvincesand Regions; the metropolitan and its jurisdiction; Patriarch, Primate
28) Plenary and Provincial Assembly (legal status, participants)
29) Episcopal Conferences (legal status, membership, organizational units)
30) Diocesan Synod (legal status, participants)
31) Diocesan Curia (legal status and structure), Vicar General, Bishop Vicar
32) Collegiate bodies of the diocese (priesthood council, congregation of consultors, pastoral council)
33) Chapters of canons (cathedral, collegiate); canonicus poenitentiarius
34) Parish and quasi-parish (concept and legal status); personally parish; “Team” spiritual administration (in solidum); a parish entrusted to a religious society
35) Parish priest (basic powers and duties); proceedings on removal and transfer of the pastor
36) Parish administrator, parish vicar, church rector, chaplain; precinct vicar (dean)
37) Forms of consecrated life (consecrated life societies, hermits, virgins)
38) Auctoritas externa, just autonomy and exemption of institutes of consecrated life
39) Religious societies (conceptual signs, classification, establishment and dissolution)
40) General organizational structure of religious societies; legal status of houses of religious canons and monks
41) Governing bodies of religious societies: higher performances, councils, chapters
42) Property management in religious societies
43) Novitiate, conditions of valid admission and conduct; the end of the novitiate
44) Religious vows (concept, classification, conditions of validity, duration)
45) Rights and duties of religious; clause (concept and types); education of religious
46) Apostolate of religious societies and religious
47) Transfer to another religious society, exclaustration (concept and types), withdrawal from religious society
48) Dismissal from religious society (ipso iure, dimissio obligatoria and facultativa; casus urgens and urgentissimus)
49) Secular institutes and societies of apostolic life (conceptual signs, incardination of clergy, way of legal regulation)
50) Magisterium infallibile, definitivum, authenticum; heresy, apostasy, schism
51) The proclamation of the Word of God; sermons, homily, catechesis (concept, subjects)
52) Missionary activities of the Church (concept, subjects)
53) Catholic education; schools, Catholic schools and universities, church universities and faculties
54) Mass media; approval of books; confession of faith
55) Sacraments in genere: concept and classification, awarder and recipient, intercommunio (passiva, activa); character indelebilis
58) Legal regulation of the sacrament of baptism
59) Legal regulation of the sacrament of confirmation
60) Legal regulation of the sacrament of the Eucharist; stipes missae
61) Legal regulation of the Sacrament of Reconciliation; dispensation powers of the confessor in foro interno (sacramentali and non sacramentali); indulgences
62) Legal regulation of the sacrament of the sick
63) Legal Regulation of the Sacrament of Ordination; irregularities and simple obstacles; declaration of invalidity of the sacrament of ordination, laicization proceedings
Annotation
The course introduces the current law of the Catholic Church and the main code of the Latin Rite Church (Code of Canon Law). It includes the interpretation of the general norms of the Code and Personal Block (constitutional law and religious law); of the administrative block is recited canon magisterial law and sacramental law.