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canon law

Rules and regulations of the Christian church, especially the Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Anglican churches. Its origin is sought in the declarations of Jesus and the apostles. In 1983 Pope John Paul II issued a new canon law code reducing offences carrying automatic excommunication, extending the grounds for annulment of marriage, removing the ban on marriage with non-Catholics, and banning trade-union and political activity by priests.

The earliest compilations were in the East, and the canon law of the Eastern Orthodox Church is comparatively small. Through the centuries, a great mass of canon law was accumulated in the Western church, which, in 1918, was condensed in the Corpus juris canonici under Benedict XV. Even so, this is supplemented by many papal decrees.
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That is why the universal law of the church directs the assembly to kneel for this part of the Eucharistic Prayer, even though in the United States we are already kneeling at that point.
When do the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ? by Field, James / U.S. Catholic
That being said, this Dicastery rests certain that His Lordship will act within the requirements of the law of the Church in any action he might take in regard to the Church of SS Peter & Paul and its parishioners.
Letter from the Vatican in full by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Nobody is allowed to frustrate the law of the Church, either an individual or a body.
BRADLEY HURT; Female minister cut up by scrapping of joint service by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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