Dicastery for Legislative Texts

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Archive - Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts

• Study conference "Canonical Questions regarding the Consecrated Life" (29 October 2015)
  • Program (pdf)
  • Application form

• Study conference of the occasion of the 25th anniversary of promulgation of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (CCEO) (3 October 2015)
  • Provisional program (pdf)
  • Application form

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• Interpretatio authentica ad can. 1041, nn. 4-5 CIC

• Study Day on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the promulgation of the Codex Iuris Canonici (25 January 2013)
  • Program (pdf)
  • Application Form

• Presentation of the "Motu Proprio" Omnium in mentem: The reason of two variations (December 15, 2009)
  [Italian]

• Study Conference on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the promulgation of the Codex Iuris Canonici (January 24-25, 2008)
  [Italian]
  • Program (pdf)
  • Excerpta ex relationibus, a Em.mis Cardinalibus
    in Congressu Studii habitis, in ephemeride L’Osservatore Romano publici iuris facta
    [Italian]

• Interpretationes Authenticae (Cfr. Art. 154 Pastor Bonus)
  [Latin]

• Actus formalis defectionis ab Ecclesia catholica (March 13, 2006)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Responsum ad propositum dubium Utrum in can. 1367 CIC (July 3, 1999)
  [AAS 91 (1999), 918]
  [Latin]

• Declarations
  

1. Concerning the celebration of sacraments or sacramentals by priests who have attempted marriage (May 19, 1997)
   [Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]
2. Concerning the admission to Holy Communion of faithful who are divorced and remarried (June 24, 2000)
   [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]
3. Concerning the correct application of canon 1382 of the Code of Canon Law (June 6, 2011)
   [Italian]

• Explanatory Notes

1. Clarifications concerning the value binding of Art. 66 of the Directory on the Ministry and Life of Priests (October 22, 1994)
   [Italian]
2. General absolution, without prior individual confession (November 8, 1996)
   [Italian]
3. A diocesan bishop is bound by the law of personal residence within his diocese (concerning can. 395 CIC) (September 12, 1996)
   [Italian]
4. Permanent participation of Superiors of religious orders at the Episcopal Conference (November 30, 1996)
   [Italian]
5. On the excommunication for schism which the adherents to the movement of Bishop Marcel Lefebvre incur (August 24, 1996)
   [Italian]
6. Concerning Cases in which the Pastoral Care of More than One Parish is Entrusted to a Single Pastor (November 13, 1997)
   [English]
7. The function of ecclesiastical authority on temporal goods (February 12, 2004)
   [Italian]
8.  Elements to establish the area of canonical responsibility of the diocesan Bishop on clerics incardinated within the diocese and exercise their ministry within it (February 12, 2004)
   [Italian]
9. Answer to 3 questions concerning the interpretation of the clause de consensum partium of canon 1681 CIC (March 2, 2005)
   [Italian]
10. The juridical nature and extension of the recognitio of the Holy See (April 28, 2006)
    [Italian]

• Decrees concerning recourses on legislative legality(cfr. Art. 158 Pastor Bonus)

1. Concerning a recourse against diocesan norms on Priests Remuneration Fund (April 29, 2000)
   [English]
2. Concerning a recourse against a general decree which establishes a diocesan tribute (February 8, 2000)
   [Spanish]

• Instruction Dignitas connubii to be observed by diocesan and interdiocesan tribunals in handling causes of the nullity of marriage (January 25, 2005)
  [Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Presentation of the Instruction Dignitas connubii (February 8, 2005)
  [English, Italian, Portuguese]

• ACADEMIC DAY  
  «Twenty years of canonical experience: 1983-2003» (January 24, 2003)

• Program
  [Italian]
• Address of John Paul II (January 24, 2003)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]
• Greeting by Card. Angelo Sodano (January 24, 2003)
  [Italian] 
• Intervention by Archbishop of Julián Herranz (January 24, 2003)
  [Italian]

• Intervention by H.E. Msgr. Julián Herranz at the presentation of the Apostolic Letter in the form of "Motu proprio" Misericordia Dei concerning the proper celebration of the Sacrament of Penance (May 2, 2002)
  [English, Italian, Portuguese]

• "The Humanity is at the crossroads" (November 15, 2000)
  [Italian]

• Salus animarum, principle of Canon Law (April 6, 2000)
  [Italian]

• The Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts: nature, competencies and work methods (August 9, 2004)
  [Italian]

• The Canon Law, why? (April 29, 2002)
  [Italian]

• Religious freedom and dialogue among civilizations (July 1, 2004)
  [Italian]

• The Eucharist in the juridical order of the Church (November 12, 2005)
  [Spanish]