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• Introduction
• The function of language in law
• Idiosyncrasies of legal language
• Comprehension difficulties
• Challenging legal incomprehension
• A global law and its language
• Interpreting the law
• The language of legal action
• Conclusion.

"This study explores the language of canon law, the legal order of the Roman Catholic Church. It seeks to bring the language of canon law into the law and language debate and in doing so better understand how the Roman Catholic Church communicates as a legal institution. It ex-amines the function of canon law language in ecclesiastical communications. It studies the character of canonical language, the grammar and terminology of canon law, and how it makes use of linguistic tricks and techniques to create its typical sound. It discusses the com-prehension difficulties that arise out of ambiguities in the law, out of transfer problems be-tween legal and common language, and out of canon law's confusing mix of legal, doctrinal, and moral norms. It reviews the potential consequences of a plain language agenda in the church. This includes an evaluation of whether dead Latin is the appropriate language for a global and cross-cultural legal order such as canon law, and a discussion of how to improve multi-language communication. It takes a closer look at ecclesiastical interpretation theory. It examines forensic language, the language of ecclesiastical tribunals, in its problematic shifting between orality and textuality"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Why Write a Sociology of Canon Law?
• Canon Law Studies--A Theological Discipline
• Employing Juridical Methodology
• Employing Sociological Methodology
• How to Approach a Sociology of Canon Law
• The Sociological View of the Law
• The Law through a Sociological Lens
• A Sociological Focus on Canon Law
• The Functions of the Law
• Law and the Order of the Social
• Law and the Resolution of Conflicts
• The Validity of Positive Law
• Modern Law as Positive Law
• Law Derived from Power, Power Derived from the Law
• Characteristics of Positive Law
• The Validity of the Law and the Issue of Legitimacy
• A Sociological View on Validity Issues
• Accepting Canon Law?
• The Effectiveness of the Law
• Effectiveness and Compliance
• Preconditions of Compliance
• The Connection of the Effectiveness and Validity of the Law
• Résumé
• An Outlook for Further Studies
• Summary of the Book (in Theses).

This "Open Access" book investigates the legal reality of the church through a sociological lens and from the perspective of canon law studies, the discipline which researches the law and the legal structure of the Catholic Church. It introduces readers from various backgrounds to the sociology of canon law, which is both a legal and a theological field of study, and is the first step towards introducing a new subdiscipline of the sociology of canon law. As a theoretical approach to mapping out this field, it asks what theology and canon law may learn from sociology; it discusses the understanding of "law" in religious contexts; studies the preconditions of legal validity and effectiveness; and based on these findings it asks in what sense it is possible to speak of canon "law". By studying a religious order as its struggles to find a balance between continuity and change, this book also contributes to the debates on religious law in modernity and the challenges it faces from secular states and plural societies. This book is of interest to researchers and students of the sociology of law, legal studies, law and religion, the sociology of religion, theology, and religious studies.

• Introduction
• Catholic cosmopolitan and the birth of human rights
• Catholic cosmopolitanism from the centre to the periphery
• Catholic cosmopolitanism from the periphery to international concern
• Locating a modern Christian cosmopolitanism
• An imperfect cosmopolitan project
• Conclusion

It is because Catholicism played such a formative role in the construction of Western legal culture that it is the focal point of this enquiry. The account of international law from its origin in the treaties of Westphalia, and located in the writing of the Grotian tradition, had lost contact with another cosmopolitan history of international law that reappeared with the growth of the early twentieth century human rights movement. The beginnings of the human rights movement, grounded in democratic sovereign power, returned to that moral vocabulary to promote the further growth of international order in the twentieth century. In recognising this technique of periodically returning to Western cosmopolitan legal culture, this book endeavours to provide a more complete account of the human rights project that factors in the contribution that cosmopolitan Catholicism made to a general theory of sovereignty, international law and human rights.
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• Introduction
• 1. Catholic cosmopolitan and the birth of human rights
• 2. Catholic cosmopolitanism from the centre to the periphery
• 3. Catholic cosmopolitanism from the periphery to international concern
• 4. Locating a modern Christian cosmopolitanism
• 5. An imperfect cosmopolitan project
• Conclusion.
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It is because Catholicism played such a formative role in the construction of Western legal culture that it is the focal point of this enquiry. The account of international law from its origin in the treaties of Westphalia, and located in the writing of the Grotian tradition, had lost contact with another cosmopolitan history of international law that reappeared with the growth of the early twentieth century human rights movement. The beginnings of the human rights movement, grounded in democratic sovereign power, returned to that moral vocabulary to promote the further growth of international order in the twentieth century. In recognising this technique of periodically returning to Western cosmopolitan legal culture, this book endeavours to provide a more complete account of the human rights project that factors in the contribution that cosmopolitan Catholicism made to a general theory of sovereignty, international law and human rights.
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The history of canon law in various Christian cultures (Latin, Greek, Syrian, Coptic) has, with good reason, mostly concentrated on questions of content and organization. In the present volume, however, a comparison is made of the procedures leading to conciliar decisions and thus to the emergence of canon law

"The issue of land and its law of inheritance is not only a crucial concern in the Hebrew Bible but also in our society today. The book analyses this issue by a careful examination of biblical assessment of inheritance and ancient west Asian inheritance law along with inheritance rights of ancient Israel and Israelite women against the backdrop of Biblical scholarship. The author also attempts to link the concerned subject with the contemporary issues pertaining to women’s inheritance right." --Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• Children as rights holders
• The code of canon law and children
• Canon law and the UN Convention on the Rights of the [Child]
• Conclusion

In the first study of its kind Mary McAleese subjects to comprehensive scrutiny the Roman Catholic Church's 1983 Code of Canon law as it applies to children. The Catholic Church is the world's largest non-governmental organisation involved in the provision of education and care services to children. It has over three hundred million child members world-wide the vast majority of whom became Church members when they were baptised as infants. Canon law sets out their rights and obligations as members. Children also have rights which are set out in the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child to which the Holy See is State Party. The impact of the Convention on Canon Law is examined in detail and the analysis charts a distinct and worrying sea-change in the attitude of the Holy See to its obligations under the Convention since the clerical sex abuse scandals became a subject of discussion at the Committee on the Rights of the Child, which monitors implementation of the Convention. Mary McAleese wins Europe's richest theology prize for her study of canon law. The former President of Ireland Mary McAleese has won one of the Catholic world's most prestigious prizes, the Alfons Auer Ethics Award, from Tubingen University in Germany for her doctoral thesis on Children's Rights and Obligations in Canon Law.
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• Preface and acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Nature as a source of validity for religious law
• Questions from a canonist's point of view
• Canon law between nature and culture
• Consequences for developing the law
• Conclusion.

Natural law has long been considered the traditional source of Roman Catholic canon law. However, new scholarship is critical of this approach as it portrays the Catholic Church as static, ahistorical, and insensitive to cultural change. In its attempt to stem the massive loss of effectiveness being experienced by canon law, the church has to reconsider its theory of legal foundation, especially its natural law theory. Church Law in Modernity analyses the criticism levelled at the church and puts forward solutions for reconciling church law with modernity by revealing the historical and cultural authenticity of all law, and revising the processes of law making. In a modern church, there is no way of thinking of the law without the participation of the faithful in legislation. Judith Hahn therefore proposes a reformed legislative process for the church in the hope of reconciling the natural law origins of church law with a new, modern theology.
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• Introduction: God Weeps - The Beginnings - Pope John Paul II: The Flummoxed - Pope Benedict XVI: The Rigid - Pope Francis: The Inconsistent- God Still Weeps - Bibliography - Index.
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This book shows how Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI mandated many confused, inconsistent, and misguided policies on clerical sexual abuse; actions that ultimately hindered the implementation of effective reforms to alleviate the crisis that has enveloped the Catholic Church for the last two decades. It also examines the possibility of authentic change by articulating the positive outreach of Pope Francis to the victims of abuse, his attempts at institutional atonement, as well as his struggles to implement systematic actions for the protection of young people.
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