Open AccessKANONICZNA OCHRONA KARNA RELIGII, JEDNOŚCI, AUTORYTETÓW KOŚCIELNYCH I WOLNOŚCI KOŚCIOŁA KATOLICKIEGO
Author(s) -
Florian Lempa
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
civitas et lex
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2449-5522
pISSN - 2392-0300
DOI - 10.31648/cetl.2126
Subject(s) - canon law , sanctions , law , rite , decree , political science , position (finance) , hierarchy , sociology , business , finance
The article presents the most important values criminally protected in the Catholic Churchby CIC/1983 and CCEO/1990. They are: the religion, the unity, the church authorities and thefreedom of the Church. About their prime position in the hierarchy of goods legally protected bythe provisions of penal canon law testifies that the crimes against them are put in the first and inthe second title of CIC/1983, also the threat of severe penal sanctions. These sanctions result fromthe exceptional social harmfulness of the crimes. In the degree of ailment they are analogical inthe canon law of the Latin rite and in the common law of Eastern Catholic Churches.