The Canon 8 of Nicea and the Legal Status of the Adulterer. A Review in the Light of the First Conciliar Literature
The Canon 8 of Nicea and the Legal Status of the Adulterer. A Review in the Light of the First Conciliar Literature

Summary/Abstract: This study intends to offer a historical-legal overview of the conciliar ecumenical and local texts and of the canonical sources of the ius antiquum Concerning the concubinage and the adultery and the admission of the people in this situation to the sacraments. Through an utroquistic reading of the sources and of the related historical, social and legal context, a historiographic analysis of the topic will be proposed by demonstrating that the admission of the concubinaries or adulterer to the sacraments does not constitute a form of abuse or violation of Tradition; on the contrary, the sources analysed constitute proof of the ability of the Church of the first millennium –whose ambitions are not distant from the one of the Church of today – to include in a harmonious dialogue between Justice and Mercy the problems and the concerns that are present in the society of a specific historical moment, always having the social and the spiritual well-being of the community of the faithful as its aim.

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