"You should also learn to understand and - dare I say it - to love canon law, appreciating how necessary it is and valuing its practical applications: a society without law would be a society without rights. Law is the condition of love. - Benedict XVI, Letter to Seminarians on October 18, 2010
"You don't often hear an exhortation
to 'love canon law.' Like civil law, it can seem to matter only when
something has gone wrong, or when it's preventing us from doing what we
want when we want. But today is the feast of St. Raymond of Peñafort,
patron saint of canon lawyers, and a good day to ask: 'Why canon law?'
"Law is necessary to govern societies,
and the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, is truly a society. She is
not merely a community organization, nor is she merely a collection of
individuals who share the same personal commitments, nor is she an
invisible and purely spiritual reality. The Church is the inbreaking of
the Kingdom of God, the ecclesial presence of that Kingdom. . . ."
In a recent commentary, Brother Hyacinth Grubb, O.P., reflected on the blessing of Canon Law.
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Dominicana: Loving Lawyers (7 JAN 19)
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