The Right to Life in Canon Law
The Declaration of Independence, that seminal document of the United States, states that all men are endowed by God with certain inalienable rights, including the right to life. The right to life is also contained explicitly in the UN’s 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and likewise in the...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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L' année canonique
Έτος: 2024, Τόμος: 64, Τεύχος: 2, Σελίδες: 11-27 |
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| Σύνοψη: | The Declaration of Independence, that seminal document of the United States, states that all men are endowed by God with certain inalienable rights, including the right to life. The right to life is also contained explicitly in the UN’s 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and likewise in the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights. It may come as a surprise to many that no such broad declaration of a right to life is contained in the various codes of canon law of the Church. The lack of a declared right to life in the Code should not be interpreted as a lack of commitment to the right to life by the Church. The Church’s law focuses on a very particular aspect of the life of the Church. It is true that, in the past, the legal norms of the Church were hardly distinguished from the norms of natural law. To be more precise, the laws enacted by human legislators, including ecclesiastical ones, were understood as the practical application of the principles of the natural law, as well as the recognition of certain human customs and practices around which particular societies organized themselves. Since the loss of the sense of Europe as Christendom, and the decreasing political role of the Supreme Pontiff as one who wields civil power, the Church’s legal focus has narrowed to focus especially on the organizational and disciplinary norms that assist the Church in her mission. Temporal rulers exercise a monopoly on police power, and are thus permitted to exercise lethal force… |
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| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: L' année canonique
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