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  1. Can. 1226 By the term private chapel is understood a place for divine worship designated by permission of the local ordinary for the benefit of one or more physical persons. Can. 1227 Bishops can establish a private chapel for themselves which possesses the same rights as an oratory.

  2. 308. Likewise, either on the altar or near it, there is to be a cross, with the figure of Christ crucified upon it, a cross clearly visible to the assembled people. It is desirable that such a cross should remain near the altar even outside of liturgical celebrations, so as to call to mind for the faithful the saving Passion of the Lord. The ...

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  4. The canon law of the Catholic Church (from Latin ius canonicum) is "how the Church organizes and governs herself". It is the system of laws and ecclesiastical legal principles made and enforced by the hierarchical authorities of the Catholic Church to regulate its external organization and government and to order and direct the activities of ...

  5. Mar 27, 2023 · Canon law includes both divine law and ecclesiastical law. Divine law is unchangeable and is applicable to every human being — for example, the law against murder. Ecclesiastical law is rooted in Church law and is not infallible, although it is authoritative — for example, the laws regarding fast and abstinence.

  6. III. ECCLESIASTICAL LAW AS TO CHAPELS. Chapel (Lat. capella; Fr. chapelle).—When St. Martin divided his military cloak ( cappa) and gave half to the beggar at the gate of Amiens, he wrapped the other half round his shoulders, thus making of it a cape ( capella ). This cape, or its representative, was afterwards preserved as a relic and ...

  7. Apr 19, 2024 · The 1983 Codex Iuris Canonici is the official universal law for the Latin Church (the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church – approximately 1.2 billion people). There is a separate code of canon law for the Eastern Churches of the Catholic Church, promulgated by Pope St. John Paul II in 1990. Canon Law is a Legal System.

  8. Canon is another name for a law in the Code of Canon Law. (Adjective form is canonical.) Canon Law is a code of ecclesiastical laws governing the Catholic Church. In the Latin or Western Church, the governing code is the 1983 Code of Canon Law, a revision of the 1917 Code of Canon Law.

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