Overview: Rudolf Ritter von Scherer (11 August 1845, Graz – 21 December 1918, Vienna) was an Austrian religious law professor.

Overview: A curia is an official body that governs an entity within the Catholic Church. These curias range from the relatively simple diocesan curia; to the larger patriarchal curias; to the curia of various C ...

Overview: The Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (CCEC; Latin: Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium, abbreviated CCEO) is the title of the 1990 work which is a codification of the common portions of the canon ...

Overview: In 1983 the Catholic Church introduced the possibility of entrusting the pastoral care of one or more parishes to a team of priests in solidum. This provision in the 1983 Code of Canon Law, which resembles ...

Overview: In the canon law of the Catholic Church, a procurator is one who acts on behalf of and by virtue of the authority of another. In a monastery, the procurator is the friar, monk or nun charged with admi ...

Overview: Vacatio legis (Latin for "absence of law") is a technical term in law which designates the period between the announcement of a legislation and its entering into force.

Overview: Petitions to the Holy See are part of the mode of government of the Catholic Church.

Overview: Funeral dues, under the 1917 Code of Canon Law, were the payments that are due to a priest under canon law for celebrating a Roman Catholic funeral. There also existed the right for a quarter of the funeral ...

Overview: Incardination is the formal term in the Catholic Church for a clergyman being under a bishop or other ecclesiastical superior. It is also sometimes used to refer to laity who may transfer to another part ...

Overview: Latae sententiae (Latin meaning "of a judgment having been brought") and ferendae sententiae (Latin meaning "of a judgment having to be brought") are ways sentences are imposed in the Catholic Church in ...

Overview: The canon law of the Catholic Church (from Latin ius canonicum) is "how the Church organizes and governs herself". It is the system of laws and ecclesiastical legal principles made and enforced by the ...

Overview: A college, in the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, is a collection (Latin: collegium) of persons united together for a common object so as to form one body. The members are consequently said to ...

Overview: Sui iuris (or), also spelled sui juris, is a Latin phrase that literally means "of one's own right". It is used in both the Catholic Church's canon law and secular law. The term church sui iuris is used ...

Overview: Canonical admonitions are a preliminary means used by the Catholic Church towards a suspected person, as a preventive of harm or a remedy of evil.

Overview: A parish register, alternatively known as a parochial register, is a handwritten volume, normally kept in the parish church of an ecclesiastical parish in which certain details of religious ceremonies ...

Overview: 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 ...

Overview: Amovibility or amovability is a term used in Catholic canon law for the condition of a priest who can be removed from his parish or post by his bishop. An amovible office constrasts with a perpetual or ...