canon law

It means canon law students have no case law to study or cite.

It means canon law students have no case law to study or cite.

Catholic canon law says the church “promotes the true and authentic veneration” of saints because of their pious examples.

The verdict also did some legal gymnastics to make sense of the Vatican’s outdated criminal code, based on Italy’s 1889 code and the church’s canon law, requalifying or combining charges to fit into other ones.

“If there is no canonical crime, then it means that canon law is simply used as a mechanism of political repression.”