canon law
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Catholic canon law says the church “promotes the true and authentic veneration” of saints because of their pious examples.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2024
Gay rights groups cheered the news, but Dawn Eden Goldstein, a Catholic theologian who holds a licensure in canon law, advised that church members should read the Vatican’s pronouncement carefully.
From Washington Times • Dec. 18, 2023
Defrocking - the process of being reduced to a 'lay state' in which clerical status is taken away from a priest - is among the harshest sanctions available in the Catholic church's canon law.
From BBC • Dec. 19, 2022
To explain his stepping down, a Vatican statement at the time referred to a canon law that allowed bishops under 75 to retire for health reasons or other “grave” reasons, but did not elaborate.
From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2022
The Catholic Church has survived for centuries, not by passing on a ‘celibacy gene’ from one pope to the next, but by passing on the stories of the New Testament and of Catholic canon law.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
