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	Eastern Rite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The canon law that the Eastern Catholic Churches have in common has been codified in the 1991 Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, while the Western or Latin particular Church is governed by the Code of Canon Law, a second edition of which was issued in 1983.
		The Eastern Catholic Churches are in full communion of faith and of acceptance of authority with the see of Rome, but retain their distinctive liturgical rites, laws and customs, and traditional devotions.
		Most Eastern Catholics are also directly subject to a patriarch or, who has authority for all the bishops and the other faithful of his rite or particular Church (canons 56 and 151 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches).
	www.lexington-fayette.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Eastern_Rite (1349 words)

	Canon Law Professionals
		Canon Law Professionals is dedicated to working for and with the Catholic Church and its people in the pursuit of justice within the Church.
		Canon Law Professionals, is a group of clergy, religious and lay canon lawyers collaborating to provide a full compliment of professional canonical services to dioceses, religious communities, individuals and institutions in the Catholic Church, always keeping in mind that "the salvation of souls is the supreme law of the church."
		We are able to provide assistance to dioceses, religious communities, individual church faithful, and other institutions in the Catholic Church.
	www.canonlawprofessionals.com (440 words)

	Anglican Communion News Service
		Canon law is the title given to the legal system which churches of the catholic and apostolic tradition create to regulate their internal life - their government, ministry, doctrine, liturgy, rites and property.
		Canon law is the servant of each Anglican church: it seeks to facilitate and order communion amongst the faithful within each particular church.
		Indeed, some laws require alteration of the Fundamental Declarations of a church to be 'endorsed by the Archbishop of Canterbury as not affecting the terms of Communion between [that church], the Church of England and the rest of the Anglican Communion'.
	www.anglicancommunion.org /acns/acnsarchive/acns2400/acns2406.html (4040 words)

	Leaven of the Pharisees: The Apostasy of Roman Catholicism
		Although popular belief holds that the Roman Church would never use this practice of Medieval torture again, the canon laws governing the Inquisition were strengthened, not eliminated, by a revision of Catholic Canon Law in 1983.
		The Roman Catholic Church on the "Servanthood" of the Pope
		However, central to the Roman Catholic version of salvation is the Roman Catholic Church and their sacraments.
	www.acts1711.com /jesus2a.htm (4040 words)

	canon law. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Canon law lays down rules for the governance and regulation of the clergy and the church, including such matters as the qualifications, duties, and discipline of the clergy and the administration of the sacraments (more particularly the laws regarding holy orders and the sacrament of marriage).
		Canon law embraces both general laws applicable in the church universal, such as those on requirements for the priesthood and those on marriage, and local laws applicable only in certain dioceses.
		The Council of Trent (1545–63, with interruptions) by its decrees concerning the church and church discipline was a landmark in canon law.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ca/canonlaw.html (724 words)

	Canon law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Canon law is the term used for the internal ecclesiastical law which governs various churches, most notably the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Churches and the Anglican Commuion of churches.
		Other churches in the Anglican Communion around the world (e.g., the Episcopal Church in the United States, and the Anglican Church of Canada) still function under their own private systems of canon law.
		The teaching of canon law at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge was abrogated by Henry VIII; thereafter practitioners in the ecclesiastical courts were trained in civil law, receiving a Doctor of Civil Law (D.C.L.) degree from Oxford, or an LL.D. from Cambridge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canon_law (600 words)

	Canon Law
		Next, the Canon pertains to those TRUTHS PROPOSED FOR BELIEF BY THE DIVINE AND CATHOLIC FAITH, truths defined as such by the Church, and falling within the realm of the 'Solemn' or the 'Ordinary and Universal' Magisterium.
		Putting it in different terms, are they to follow the ecclesiastical laws legitimately established by man, but which in the present circumstances act to frustrate the intent of the Church and her founder, or are they to follow the higher law of charity and justice established by God.
		A 'heretic' is defined in Canon 1325 as: 'Any baptized person who, while retaining the name of Christian, obstinately denies or doubts any of the truths proposed for belief by the Divine and Catholic Faith'.
	www.wandea.org.pl /canon-law.html (3624 words)

	Canon Law
		Canon law, the oldest continuously functioning legal system in the western world, is the legal system of the Catholic Church.
		Canon law is the body of laws governing the Catholic Church.
		Canon 338 §1 states: “It is the prerogative of the Roman Pontiff alone to summon an Ecumenical Council, to preside over it personally or through others, to transfer, suspend or dissolve the Council, and to approve its decrees.” Pope John XXIII called Vatican II, and Pope Paul VI approved its decrees.
	www.secondexodus.com /html/catholicdefinitions/canonlaw.htm (661 words)

	Catholic World News : New Coptic Catholic Patriarch chosen
		Under the Code of Canon Law for the Eastern Churches, the resignation of a patriarch can be accepted by the Synod of Bishops for that Church, meeting after consultation with the Holy See.
		Cairo, Apr. 03 (CWNews.com) - The Coptic Catholic Church has elected a new Patriarch.
		Patriarch Antonios Naguib was born in Egypt in 1935 and ordained to the Coptic Catholic priesthood in 1960.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=43344 (200 words)

	Armenian Catholic Church -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Canon law of the Eastern and Western churches was much the same in form until 1054 when the two groups split into the separate Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches.
		By the 10th century the Eastern Orthodox church was highly influential among the Slavs.
		The World Council of Churches is concerned with unity and peace throughout the world's faith communities.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9009515 (889 words)

	Melkite Greek Catholic Church Information Center History of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church / Grec Melkite Catholique According to Rev. Fr. James Graham
		In the midst of all this, the patriarchs of the Melkite Church strove to define and protect, under canon law and the structures of the Catholic Church, the identity and traditions of the Melkite Church.
		According to the 1986 Almanac of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, "balancing his actions against their possible consequences on the capital work of the union of the Churches, he strove for the application of his great plan for the restoration of his Church.
		The Church of Armenia, the Coptic Church, and the Syrian Orthodox Church rejected the Council's teachings on the two natures of Christ and the churches that supported the Council's teachings became known as Orthodox churches.
	www.mliles.com /melkite/historyfrjamesvoice.shtml (2838 words)

	Epiphany Byzantine Catholic Church, Roswell Georgia - Our Identity
		That is because canon law defines a "rite" as the liturgical, theological, spiritual and disciplinary patrimony, culture and circumstances of history of a distinct people, by which its own manner of living the faith is manifested in each Church sui juris.
		In summary, one can say that the Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Metropolia of the United States is an autonomous church (church sui juris) in the Constantinopolitan tradition observing the Byzantine rite.
		Copyright © 1999 - 2005 by Epiphany Byzantine Catholic Church.
	www.byzantines.net /epiphany/OurIdentity.htm (2838 words)

	Catholic Community Forum Discussion Groups - Vatican Illegaly Suppress Russian Rite
		In another Sop to the Hostile Russian Orthodox church.The Vatican is moving to suppress the Russian Rite Catholic church in Russia in violation of Canon Law and the decree Orientalum Dignitas of Leo XIII.
		At the end of the 19th century Russian intelectuals and some nobles started the Russian Rite Catholic church it was never very big.It operated usualy under the protection of other Eastern Rite churches.
		Regrefuly there were and are Catholic Cardinals that want to push reunion with the Orthodox at the expense of the Eastern Rites.
	www.catholic-forum.com /forums/printthread.php?t=2054 (746 words)

	Syro Russian Orthodox Catholic Church
		It is a canonical autocephalous jurisdiction as it adheres to the Rudder (Canon Law) of the Holy Orthodox Catholic Church, the Faith of Christ God and the Early Church Fathers, and the ancient customs of the Orthodox Christian Church.
		The Syro-Russian Byzantine Synod is the body of Bishops of the Syro-Russian Orthodox Catholic Church, originally known as the American Orthodox Catholic Chuch.
		The Orthodox Church is the original Christian Church founded by Jesus and continued by his Apostles.
	www.rbsocc.org (152 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Canon Law
		It is a judicial science, differing from the science of Roman law and of civil law inasmuch as it treats of the laws of an other society; but as this society is of the spiritual order and in a certain sense supernatural, canon law belongs also to the sacred sciences.
		Likewise, between the law of the Catholic Church and those of the non-Catholic Christian Churches or confessions, the Anglican Church and the various Eastern Orthodox Churches.
		This was an important step towards the centralization and unification of the ecclesiastical law, especially as the Latin Catholic world hardly extended beyond the limits of the empire, Africa and the south of Spain having been lost to the Church through the victories of Islam.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09056a.htm (9063 words)

	Prophecy of the Popes: Information From Answers.com
		The pope was known for his great personal piety and strong devotion to the church, advocating reforms such as the codification of Canon law, daily communion and the Gregorian chant in the Catholic liturgy.
		Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, the late self-proclaimed Pope of the Palmarian Catholic Church also used to claim that he was the glory of the olive.
		The anti-pope Pius XIII of the true Catholic Church has also claimed to be Pastor et Nauta, as their group believes that his last valid predecessor was Pius XII.
	big5.xinhuanet.com /gate/big5/www.answers.com/topic/prophecy-of-the-popes (4276 words)

	Liberal Catholic Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the time, the majority of Liberal Catholics in the United States supported Hampton and saw his removal from the office of Regionary and the other subsequent precedings as a breach of canon law and a violation of some of the laws of California under which the church had been incorporated in America.
		In 1941, there was a schism in the Liberal Catholic Church in the United States, surrounding a controversy involving Bishop Charles Hampton, who, while he was himself a theosophist, wished to keep adherence to theosophical tenets optional for the clergy.
		The Liberal Catholic Church, Province of the United States of America, requires its clergy to believe in such theosophical tenets as reincarnation and the ascended masters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberal_Catholic_Church (560 words)

	Catholic World News : Reform program challenged
		The document itself cited several authoritative sources on the Sacrament of Penance, including the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Code of Canon Law, and the Pope’s Apostolic Exhortation, Reconciliation and Penance, as well as his December 1988 Address to the Australian Bishops.
		In a letter to Adelaide’s Catholics which accompanied the guidelines, Archbishop Faulkner said he was responding to "the directive of the Holy Father" in replacing the existing guidelines (established under his predecessor Archbishop Gleeson in 1976).
		That Archbishop Faulkner nevertheless believes he can circumvent the Vatican guidelines highlights the fact that no matter how watertight Church documents might appear on paper, they can be interpreted away, if a bishop has the inclination and will to do so.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=20756 (1045 words)

	Catholic Online - Cathcom - New Concordat With Portugal Is Applauded
		The Catholic Church will be able to receive 0.5% of the income tax that citizens can allocate to various institutions in their annual tax returns, the Portuguese Catholic agency Ecclesia explained.
		These are cases in which, as the Code of Canon Law establishes, there has been no sacramental marriage, despite the fact that a ceremony took place.
		The Holy Father expressed his "profound appreciation for the attention that the government and Assembly of the Portuguese republic have shown for the mission of the Church" with this signature, which should abrogate the previous concordat, in force for 64 years, considered obsolete given the changes in Portuguese national life.
	www.catholic.org /cathcom/international_story.php?id=7853 (1045 words)

	USCCB - (Office of Media Relations) - Polish National Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church Hold Fall Session
		Thomas J. Green of the School of Canon Law of the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, presented brief observations on the sex abuse problematic in the Catholic Church in the United States, including canonical issues raised by the "Charter" and "Essential Norms" adopted by the US Catholic bishops in Dallas last June.
		The meeting ended with a presentation by Prime Bishop Nemkovich of the 1998 Constitution and Laws of the Polish National Catholic Church, and a general discussion of the way in which the PNCC is governed.
		WASHINGTON (November 15, 2002) -- The fall session of the dialogue between the Polish National Catholic Church and the Roman Catholic Church took place at the PNCC National Church Center in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on October 23 and 24, 2002.
	www.nccbuscc.org /comm/archives/2002/02-239.shtml (486 words)

	Saint Matthew Church
		Saint Matthew Church is an independent Catholic faith community in that we are not under the jurisdiction of the Pope nor are we subject to the canon law or the guidelines of the Roman Catholic Church.
		There are also those who were raised as Roman Catholics but due to some impediment, such as divorce and remarriage, are no longer allowed to receive the sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church.
		We are an ecumenical catholic faith community, located in the city of Orange, California, that celebrates the richness of catholic spirituality and its traditions.
	www.saint-matthew.org (486 words)

	Ukrainian Catholic Patriarch Dies in L'viv
		Under canon law, he said in 1992, the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church is entitled to a patriarch, and the Vatican's concession of the title would be a sign of esteem for the long-suffering Church and a rallying point for Church members.
		Patriarch Myroslav Ivan was born in Ukraine, but undertook most of his ministry outside his homeland because the Soviet Union outlawed the Greek-Catholic Church in 1946.
		Ukrainian Greek-Catholic bishops from around the world will gather to elect a new patriarch of their Church, which has over 7 million faithful; a date for the synod meeting has not yet been announced.
	www.uaoc.org /lubachivsky.html (1411 words)

	Syro Russian Orthodox Catholic Church (Romano Byzantine Synod)
		It is a canonical autocephalous jurisdiction as it adheres to the Rudder (Canon Law) of the Holy Orthodox Catholic Church, the Faith of Christ God and the Early Church Fathers, and the ancient customs of the Orthodox Christian Church.
		The Syro-Russian Byzantine Synod is the body of Bishops of the Syro-Russian Orthodox Catholic Church, originally known as the American Orthodox Catholic Chuch.
		The Orthodox Church is the original Christian Church founded by Jesus and continued by his Apostles.
	www.rbsocc.org (160 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Canon Law
		Likewise, between the law of the Catholic Church and those of the non-Catholic Christian Churches or confessions, the Anglican Church and the various Eastern Orthodox Churches.
		Canon law is the body of laws and regulations made by or adopted by ecclesiastical authority, for the government of the Christian organization and its members.
		On this positive Divine law depend the essential principles of the Church's constitution, the primacy, the episcopacy, the essential elements of Divine worship and the Sacraments, the indissolubility of marriage, etc.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09056a.htm (9063 words)

	canon
		Civil laws to which the law of the Church defers should be observed in canon law with the same effects, insofar as they are not contrary to divine law and unless (nisi) it is provided otherwise in canon law.
		Merely ecclesiastical laws bind those baptized in the Catholic Church or received into it and who enjoy the sufficient use of reason and, unless (nisi) the law expressly provides otherwise, have completed seven years of age.
		A dispensation, or the relaxation of a merely ecclesiastical law in a particular case, can be granted by those who enjoy executive power, within the limits of their competence, as well as by those to whom the power of dispensing has been given explicitly or implicitly either by the law itself or by lawful delegation.
	www.olph.com /canon.htm (4430 words)

	Canon Law and Abortion
		However, Canon Law is not a moral code, it is the administrative, civil, jurisdictional, procedural and penal law of the Catholic Church.
		Canon Law remains a somewhat esoteric and remarkable body of law, one that is rarely discussed with much understanding.
		It is subject to many of the same political, administrative and practical influences that shape any other body of law; while the authoritative moral teachings of the Church, per se, belong to a different forum.
	members.aol.com /abtrbng/canonl.htm (945 words)

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