Teaching code

4S001384

Teacher

Giuseppe Comotti

Coordinator

Giuseppe Comotti

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

IUS/11 - ECCLESIASTICAL AND CANON LAW

Period

1° periodo lezioni (1A) dal Sep 16, 2024 al Oct 30, 2024.

Courses Single

Authorized

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

The course aims at providing the students with tools that are necessary to learn and analyse the two-thousand years old legal order of the Catholic Church. Despite its strong originality in comparison to the world of the secular laws, the law of the Church has played a significant role in the creation and the development of the European legal culture; many institutions and many solutions of the juridical problems adopted by States laws are derived from the canonical models. At the end of the course the student will be able: - to know and understand the fundamental principles, institutes and rules of canon law; - to evaluate essential profiles of comparison between the law of the Church and secular legal systems, both in historical evolution and in current legislation; - to know how to set up practical issues of relationships between the rules of canon law and the rules of secular legal systems.

Prerequisites and basic notions

There are no specific prerequisites

Program

The course aims at explaining thoroughly canon law’s sources of divine right and sources of human right, fundamental rights of the faithful and government structures of the universal Church and of the particular Churches. A special importance will be given to canon law on marriage, wich obtains civile power in the Concordat between Italy and the Holy See.
• Sources of Canon law: divine right and human right
• The canonical condition of the christian faithful: clerics, lay faithful, religious.
• The power of governance and the hierarchical constitution of the Church
• The ecclesiastical office
• Government of the universal Church. The Roman Pontiff and the College of Bishops.
• Government of the particular Churches. The diocese. The parish
• The temporal goods of the Church.
• The penal regulation in ecclesiastical law.
• The marriage. Cases to declare the nullity of marriage.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

The teaching consists in:
• lectures on the course topics
• analysis of materials placed on e-earning platform and discussed during lectures, in order to foster a critical approach by students
• conferences by Italian and foreign experts, so as to provide students with different approaches to the subject
During the academic year the teacher receives students at the times indicated in web pages.
In addition to the indicated time, further appointments can be agreed with the teacher by e-mail.

Learning assessment procedures

Knowledge and skills provided will be verified with an final examination on the whole program.
Students attending classes will be able to choose to take a final written test on open questions and prepare for the examination based on lecture notes.

Evaluation criteria

Grades will be expressed in /30 taking into account knowledge of the subject, accuracy in response, quality of the legal reasoning and use of the correct legal terminology.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The field is not relevant to this teaching

Exam language

Italiano