The Eastern Code

A Resource for the Revision of the Latin Code

Authors

  • Jobe Abbass St Paul University, Ottawa, Canada

Keywords:

Lacunae in Latin Canons, Anointing of the Sick

Abstract

It is a reflection to review the CCEO

Author Biography

Jobe Abbass, St Paul University, Ottawa, Canada

A Maronite Catholic, Fr. Jobe ABBASS, was born in Sydney, NS, on 27 January 1952. Member of the Conventual Franciscans' Immaculate Conception Province (USA), was ordained to the priesthood in Albany, NY on 25 May 1985. University studies: Carleton University, Ottawa, ON (B.A., 1972); Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS (LL.B., 1975); St. Anthony-on-Hudson Theologate, Rensselaer, NY (M.Div., 1985); Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome (Licentiate, 1989 and Doctorate in Canon Law, 1992). Admitted to the Bar of NS on 14 November 1975 and practised as sole practitioner in Sydney, NS, 1975-1979. Attorney-at-law in the State of New York, was admitted to the New York Bar on 24 January, 1984. From 1992-2004, professor (ordinarius from 1998) on the faculty of canon law, PIO, Rome. From 2004- present, full tenured professor on the faculty of canon law, of St. Paul University, Ottawa, Canada and visiting professor on the faculties of canon law of the PIO, Rome.
This article was a conference given at the Joint Canon Law Convention of the Canadian Canon Law Society and the Canon Law Society of America in Buffalo, N.Y. from October 11-14, 2010.

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Published

2010-12-31

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2010): Iustitia: Dharmaram Journal of Canon Law

Section

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