Canon Law Display

In the Western Christian church calendar, today is Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the Lenten season. Also, the Roman Catholic Church soon will begin the process to elect a new pope to replace Pope Benedict XVI, who announced on Monday that he will resign on February 28th. In light of these events, the McKusick Law Library has compiled a display of Canon Law primary and secondary materials. Included in the display, assembled by Sarah Kammer and Kim Paz, are the Code of Canon Law, as revised in 1983, Canon Law: Letter and Spirit, a commentary and guide to the revised Code, 100 Answers to Your Questions on Annulments, Hamilton Hess's The Early Development of Canon Law and the Council of Serdica, and the table of contents to a volume of The Jurist, a publication of the School of Canon Law at The Catholic University of America. The display also provides the URL to the Vatican online archives, containing the Bible in Chinese, English, Italian, Latin and Spanish, as well as the Code of Canon Law in Traditional Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

(This entry was originally written and posted by Marsha Stacey)