{"id":38501,"date":"2017-10-07T20:10:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T01:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=38501"},"modified":"2017-10-07T20:10:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T01:10:36","slug":"pope-francis-adapt-canon-law-to-fit-ecclesiology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/07\/pope-francis-adapt-canon-law-to-fit-ecclesiology\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: Adapt Canon Law to Fit Ecclesiology"},"content":{"rendered":"

As domradio.de<\/em> reports,<\/a> Pope Francis has stated that canon law must be adapted to fit the image of the church that has developed through the Second Vatican. The occasion was a message to a conference on the hundredth anniversary of church\u2019s first universal code of canon law which appeared in 1917.<\/p>\n

Pope Francis states that canon law can be a \u201cpreferred means\u201d for promoting the teaching of the Second Vatican Council \u2013 for example, in the realms of ecumenism, mercy and charity, religious freedom, synodality, \u201copen and positive\u201d treatment of laity, and a \u201chealthy collaboration between the church community and civil society.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canon law can serve an educational function and help Christians find their way to a culture \u201cthat corresponds to the teachings of the Council,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Quoting his predecessor Benedict XVI, Francis wrote that there has been a transition since Vatican II from an ecclesiology formed by church law to church law adapted to ecclesiology. It is \u201cnecessary that canon law always corresponds to the conciliar ecclesiology.\u201d<\/p>\n

Francis said that canon law ideally is \u201can effective means for implementation of the teachings of the Second Vatican Council in the daily life of the People of God.\u201d This means that changes can come about with the passage of time.<\/p>\n

The pope\u2019s letter was addressed to the participants in an international conference on the topic of canon law and legal culture. The four-day event at the Lateran University ended today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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