Canon Law Sources
and Other Church Documents

I.  Tables of references

• Canon Law given by the Apostolic See (my collection; PDF file, 157 KB)
   
• Canon Law for Germany, especially for the (arch-)dioceses of Hamburg, Hildesheim, Limburg and Osnabrück (my collection; PDF file, 144 KB)
   
• Table of references for the diocesan law of Bamberg
• Table of references for the diocesan law of Hildesheim  (MS Word; ca. 1 MB)
• Collection of laws of the diocese of Limburg  (includes the major parts of the diocesan law, with the complete text)
• The law of the diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart  (includes the complete texts)
   

II.  Present Codices and accompanying documents

• Codex Iuris Canonici (CIC) - from 1983 - various languages
  • John Paul II., MP "Ad tuendam fidem" - English
  • Authentic Interpretations to the CIC: Latin
  • Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, Notification on the actus formalis defectionis - English
• Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium (CCEO) - from 1990 - various languages
   

III.  Other present legal sources and documents

1.  For the Universal Church

a)  Collections

• Documents of the Second Vatican Council - German  (www.vaticarsten.de)
• Documents from www.vatican.va:
  • Benedict XVI.
  • John Paul II.
  • Other Popes
  • Congregations of the Roman Curia
  • Other Institutions of the Roman Curia
• Enchiridion Vaticanum - various languages  (www.intratext.com)
• Documents of the Apostolic See - German  (www.dbk.de)
• Church Documents Reforming Vesture - Latin and English
   

b)  Individual documents

Below are some documents which are neither on the Vatican web site nor on the web site of the German Bishops' Conference (among "Verlautbarungen des Apostolischen Stuhls"), at least not in the same language.

• John Paul II.
  • AC "Pastor Bonus"  (PDF) - German
  • AC "Spirituali militum curae" - German
  • MP "Sacramentorum sanctitatis tutela"
    • Norms on the more serious offenses reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: German - English
    • accompanying letter of the Congr. for the Doctrine of the Faith - German
• Secretariat of State
  • Regolamento Generale della Curia Romana (1999) - Italian
• Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
  • Schreiben über Kommunionempfang durch Personen, die kein normales Brot und keinen normalen Wein zu sich nehmen können (2003)  (PDF) - German
  • Norms relative to the dissolution of marriage in favorem fidei (2001) - Latin and German
  • Profession of Faith and Oath of Fidelity (1989) - English
  • Letter on the dispensation from priestly celibacy (1980) - Spanish and Latin  (MS Word)
  • Declaration "Inter insigniores" (1976) - Latin and German  (PDF; 31k)
• Congregation for Divine Worship ...
  • Directory for Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest (1988)
  • Directory for Masses with Children (1973)
• Congregation for Catholic Education
  • Norms concerning the "Nihil obstat" according to "Sapientia Christiana", art. 27 § 2 - German
• Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
  • Directory for the Application of Principles and Norms on Ecumenism (1993)  (PDF) - German
     

2.  For Germany

For this part of the list please refer to the German version of my web site.
 

3.  Dioceses in Germany

For this part of the list please refer to the German version of my web site.
 

4.  Religious Orders, Associations, etc.

For this part of the list please refer to the German version of my web site.
 
 

IV.  Sources of former law

• Codex Iuris Canonici (CIC) - from 1917
• Rules of medieval monasteries and religious orders
• Corpus Iuris Canonici:
  • Decretum Gratiani
    • Leipzig 1879 (ed. Friedberg)
    • Lyon 1584 (una cum glossis Gregorii XIII.)
  • Decretals of Gregory IX. (= Liber Extra)
    • Leipzig 1881 (ed. Friedberg)
    • Lyon 1584
  • Decretals of Boniface VIII. (= Liber Sextus), Clementines, Extravagantes
    • Lyon 1584
    • Regulae iuris in VIº - Latin and Dutch
  • Indexes of the Corpus Iuris Canonici

V.  Drafts

• Lex Ecclesiae Fundamentalis (Draft from 1980)