Visit the homepage for more information. With the promulgation of the Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici – CIC) in 1983, women and men are recognized as members of the Christian faithful, ...

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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has confirmed the national shrine status of Our Lady of Martyrs Shrine in Auriesville ...

Proposed legislation looking to repeal clergy-penitent protections in at least two states is in a head-on collision with the church's primary legal code, one expert told OSV News. Monta ...

The former Code of Canon Law, Vatican Council II, and papal instructions did not mention shrines. Shrines had no formal or canonical Church recognition. Then Paul VI rose to the occasion and ...

Provisions regarding their selection, rank, roles, and prerogatives are detailed in Canons 349 to 359 of the Code of Canon Law of the Catholic Church. Following that of the Pope, the title of ...

Pope Francis has publicly claimed eight times since 2013 that the Catholic Church has “zero tolerance” towards clergy child ...

According to Roman Catholic discipline, the Code of Canon Law does not object to reception of communion by Christians of these churches (CIC 844.3). For those not receiving Holy Communion ...

The USCCB makes shrine-related determinations according to its "Norms for the Designation of National Shrines," first approved in 1992 and informed by the 1983 Code of Canon Law. According to the ...

The USCCB makes shrine-related determinations according to its “Norms for the Designation of National Shrines,” first approved in 1992 and informed by the 1983 Code of Canon Law. According to the ...

According to the code of canon law, only the Holy See can suppress an institute such as the SCV and “a decision regarding the temporal goods of the institute is also reserved to the Apostolic ...