Protection of Minors in the Current Canon Law
Protection of Minors in the Current Canon Law
Author(s): Damián NěmecSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Social Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, Sociology, Theology and Religion, Family and social welfare, Canon Law / Church Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: theology; canon law; legal protection; legal autonomy; natural person; minors; adults; age of majority; personal status; law of sacraments; penal law; procedural law
Summary/Abstract: Outgoing from a short analysis of the conception of minors, adults and persons of major age in the canon law in the 20th century, the author presents two ways of the protection of minors in the current canon law: the guarantee of their autonomous actions (personal status, cooperation with pastors of the Church, law of sacraments) and the very protection of their rights above all in the procedural law and in the penal law. Withal the author tries to identify to what degree this regulation has its fundament in the divine law or in the merely ecclesiastical law.
Journal: Ecumeny and Law
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 197-215
- Page Count: 19
- Language: English