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Basics of character, contents and task description of Canon Law.

The Catholic Church is, as the Second Vatican Council emphasized in the Dogmatic Constitution of the Church "Lumen Gentium", faith, salvation and legal community in an integral unit (Art. 8 VatII LG). The VU turns to the legal dimension of the Curch as well as legal aspects of various current and pastoral questions. She is initially based on the concrete experience of the listeners with canon law and church law-related areas. It deals with the genesis of the ecclesial codes (CIC and CCEO) and the ecclesiastical law. She goes into the matter of being, content and function of ecclesiastical law and presents various attempts at a theological foundation of canon law. It covers the legal stauts of the faithful (clergy and laity), the allocation of total and partial church, legal issue of leadership, of Christian marriage and the relationship between church and state.

Lecture with discussion and collaboration

Oral examination

Stephan Haering, Wilhelm Rees, Heribert Schmitz (Hrsg.), Handbuch des katholischen Kirchenrechts, 3.  Aufl., Regensburg 2015. Aymans / Mörsdorf, Kanonisches Recht, 13. Aufl., Paderborn u.a. 1991 ff. Peter Krämer, Kirchenrecht, 2 Bde., Stuttgart u.a. 1992 f. Richard Puza, Katholisches Kirchenrecht, 2. Aufl., Heidelberg 1993.

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open for students from the faculty of law