POSSIBLE FUTURE CHANGES NEEDED ON ‘RELIGIOUS’ IN CCEO AND OTHER SECTIONS IN CIC AND CCEO

Authors

  • Varghese Koluthara Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore, India.

Keywords:

revision, reform, aggiornamento, defect, proper norms, apostolate, monks, typology, title XII, lacuna.

Abstract

Codes of Canon Law are subject to change and reform. The author encourages canonists to review a few areas like, CCEO Title XII: Religious and Other Institutes, CIC c. 579: Erection of a new Institute of Con. Life, concepts of Synodality, Ecumenism, Papal Primacy, Priestly Celibacy, Penalties in CCEO and CIC. Therefore, inspired by the research on the studied opinions of some eminent canonists of today, he invites the canonists and theologians to make a collective effort for reform and this search need not be a finished act but a work in progress.

Author Biography

Varghese Koluthara, Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore, India.

Varghese Koluthara CMI, holds LLB (Bangalore University 1997-2000), Licentiate in Theology (DVK, Bangalore, 1985-87) Licentiate in Canon Law (Lateran Uni. Rome, 1987-89), a Diploma (1989-90) and Doctorate in Oriental Canon Law (POI, Rome, 1991-1994). He is the Founder Director of the Institute of Oriental Canon Law at DVK (1999-2008) and after a break of seven years he serves as its director at present. He serves as a consulter to the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts (Vatican) since 2008 and the Vice-President of the Canon Law Society of India since 2019. He has to his credit a book titled Rightful Autonomy of Religious Institutes (3 editions: 1994, 2005 & 2014) and many articles in the national and international journals.

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Published

2020-08-02

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2019): Iustitia: Dharmaram Journal of Canon Law

Section

Articles