Acceptance and Operativeness of the Canon Law in Mission Territories Cultural Challenge and Technical Limits

The constitutive relationship betwen Universal Church and particular Churches is the starting point of the article's analysis, which highlights the dimensions of universality and particularity also in canonical field. As the two realities are only materially different, both of them belonging fo...

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Main Author: Dias, Ivan (Author)
Format: Print Article
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Published: Urbaniana Univ. Press 2008
In: Ius missionale
Year: 2008, Volume: 2, Pages: 193-203
IxTheo Classification:SB Catholic Church law
Further subjects:B Subsidiarity principle
B Law
B Ritual
B Particular law
B Orientalischer Ritus
B Disparity
B Particular church
B Universal church
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Summary:The constitutive relationship betwen Universal Church and particular Churches is the starting point of the article's analysis, which highlights the dimensions of universality and particularity also in canonical field. As the two realities are only materially different, both of them belonging formally to the only Church of Christ, disciplinary formalism is evident both in the differences between Latin Church and Oriental Churches, and in disciplinary differentiation within the different peoples and culture where Gospel is announced and the Church is implanted. Avoiding the opposition between universal and particular law, the contribution presents the special faculties system as an actual answer to the needs of Churches' life in mission territories as well as the application of the principles of subsidiarity and right autonomy in the production of a particular law which could fit to the circumstances, places and cultures of the peoples where the Church lives in
ISSN:2520-0089
Contains:Enthalten in: Ius missionale