A resource for both professional and armchair canonists.
Also including the GIRM, GILH, CCC, CCEO, DC, SST, ESI, USCCB Norms, and Vos estis.
Where then are these rules written, if not in the book of that light we call the truth? In it is written every just law; from it the law passes into the heart of the man who does justice, not that it migrates into it, but that it places its imprint on it, like a seal on a ring that passes onto wax, without leaving the ring.
The natural law is nothing other than the light of understanding placed in us by God; through it we know what we must do and what we must avoid. God has given this light or law at the creation.
CanonLaw.Ninja is a website that allows you to search canon law and other various church documents. It's developed by Fr. Paul Hedman, a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Paul & Minneapolis.
To the best of my knowledge, as of March 15, 2022, all of the documents on CanonLaw.Ninja are up to date. CanonLaw.Ninja includes the changes promulgated in Ad tuendam fidem, Omnium in Mentem, Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus, De Concordia inter Codices, Magnum principium, Communis vita, Pascite gregem Dei, Competentias quasdam decernere, and Pope Francis' update to the Catechism.
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The Code of Canon Law is provided courtertesy of, and with permission from, the Canon Law Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Catechism paragraphs were scraped from vatican.va. Other documents were scraped from various sources.
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