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Today In History, November 27, 1983, The revised Code of Canon Law took effect. · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: To day in history. November twenty seventh, nineteen eighty three,
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  Speaker 1: the Revised Code of Canon Law, signed by Pope John
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  Speaker 1: Paul the Second in January, took effect. Code of Canon Law,
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  Speaker 1: official compilation of Ecclesiastical Law, promulgated in nineteen seventeen and
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  Speaker 1: again in revised form in nineteen eighty three for Roman
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  Speaker 1: Catholics of the Latin Rite. The Code obliges Roman Catholics
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  Speaker 1: of Eastern Rites only when it specifically refers to them
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  Speaker 1: or clearly applies to all Roman Catholics. For centuries following
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  Speaker 1: the Council of Trent fifteen forty five to fifteen sixty three,
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  Speaker 1: the need for a codification of the disciplinary law of
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  Speaker 1: the Church had been recognized, but not until nineteen o
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  Speaker 1: four was a plan put forth. On March nineteenth of
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  Speaker 1: that year, Pope Pious Texts announced his plan of procedure
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  Speaker 1: and appointed a commission of cardinals under the presidency of
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  Speaker 1: Pietro later Cardinal GASPARI to supervise the work. All Roman
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  Speaker 1: Catholic bishops, superiors of religious orders, and faculties of Roman
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  Speaker 1: Catholic universities were invited to collaborate. Pope benedictsy fifteen promulgated
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  Speaker 1: the first Code on Pentecost Sunday, May twenty seventh, nineteen seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: The new code replaced the Corpus Juris Canonici Corpus of
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  Speaker 1: canon Law, an earlier compilation of church law that had
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  Speaker 1: been in force since the Middle Ages. The New Code
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  Speaker 1: of Canon Law was a systematic arrangement of the ecclesiastical
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  Speaker 1: law then in force. This legislation was set forth in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand, five hundred and fourteen canons or norms that
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  Speaker 1: were organized under topical headings in five books. Some twenty
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  Speaker 1: six thousand citations of prior church legislation were listed, including
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  Speaker 1: approximately eighty four hundred from the Decretum Gratiani Decree of Gration,
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  Speaker 1: a twelfth century collection, two hundred from general councils of
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  Speaker 1: the Church, thousand from papal legislation, eleven two hundred from
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  Speaker 1: the norms of Roman congregations, the administrative bodies of the
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  Speaker 1: Roman Curia, and eight hundred from liturgical books. Between nineteen
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  Speaker 1: twenty three and nineteen thirty nine, Cardinal Gaspari and Justinian Cerati,
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  Speaker 1: a Hungarian canonist and the Archbishop of Estergom, published nine
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  Speaker 1: volumes of the sources of the Code under the title
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  Speaker 1: Fontes Juris Canonici Sources of the Code of Canon Law.
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  Speaker 1: After the promulgation of the First Code, a great mass
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  Speaker 1: of ecclesiastical legislation, published periodically in the Acta Apostoliiccetis Acts
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  Speaker 1: of the Apostolic See, began to accumulate, and the need
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  Speaker 1: for revision became clear. On January twenty fifth, nineteen fifty nine,
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  Speaker 1: Pope John Daithort established a papal commission of cardinals and
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  Speaker 1: experts to undertake a new revision of the Code. On
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  Speaker 1: January twenty fifth, nineteen eighty three, Pope John Paul the
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  Speaker 1: Second signed the Second Code of Canon Law, to take
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  Speaker 1: effect on November twenty seventh, nineteen eighty three. This second
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  Speaker 1: Code superseded the first one. The Second Code, written in Latin,
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  Speaker 1: consists of one thou seven hundred and fifty two canons,
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  Speaker 1: organized into seven books. Books I in A two defined
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  Speaker 1: the positions and responsibilities of both the laity and the clergy.
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  Speaker 1: Book three deals with the promulgation of the church, including
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  Speaker 1: the subjects of teaching, preaching, and the Church's relations with
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  Speaker 1: the media. Book four contains guidelines for the administration of
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  Speaker 1: the sacraments with Dad. The greatest emphasis on the sacrament
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  Speaker 1: of marriage. Book V concerns the church's handling of money, property,
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  Speaker 1: and other temporal goods. Book six deals with sanctions, reducing
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  Speaker 1: the number of excommunicable actions from thirty seven to seven,
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  Speaker 1: and Books seven provides a structure for the establishment of
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  Speaker 1: church courts and the settlement of internal disputes. A chief
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  Speaker 1: element of the Second Code is the definition of the
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  Speaker 1: Church as the people of God, rather than as an institution.
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  Speaker 1: This is Gil. Thank you for listening. Later