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Changes in canon law after the Second Vatican Council
Surmánek, Miroslav ; Tretera, Jiří Rajmund (advisor) ; Horák, Záboj (referee)
Resumé In my thesis, I tried to focus on the most important aspects of the changes in the Canon law of the Catholic Church after the II Vatican Council. From the very beginning I tried to understand the historical background of the Catholic Church, foundations on which Legal system began to be build. The Canon law of the Catholic Church has changed many times in the history. I tried to follow those changes across the centuries to the beginning of 20th Century when the Canon law was codified. Pope Pius X ordered that work begin on reducing diverse documents into single code, presenting the normative portion in the form of systematic short canons shorn of the preliminary considerations and omitting those parts that had been superseded by later developments. The Code was promulgated in 1917 as Code of Canon law, by his successor, Pope Benedict XV. For the most part, it applied only to the Latin Church except when "it treats of things that, by their nature, apply to the Oriental". Wide reception of normative of Canon law was considered as a "masterpiece of legal work". Social, political and economical changes during 20th Century have had it's consequences also in the field of the Canon law. Some parts of the 1917 Code became obsolete under the new circumstances. In 1959, Pope John XXIII announced together with...
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