Pope reflects on relation between canon law, evangelization
February 21, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: In a February 18 address to participants in a formation course organized by the Roman Rota, Pope Francis said that “your work deals with rules, processes and sanctions, but you must never lose sight of rights, putting people, who are the subjects and objects of law, at the center of your work.”
“These rights are not arbitrary claims, but objective goods, aimed at salvation, to be recognized and protected, without forgetting respect for natural goods within the ecclesial community,” the Pope continued. “You, as legal scholars, have a special responsibility to make the truth of justice shine in the life of particular churches: this task is a major contribution to evangelization.”
(For a discussion of particular churches, see canons 368-374 of the Code of Canon Law.)
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