School of Canon Law

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The School of Canon Law strives to prepare canonists with a deep theoretical and practical knowledge of Church law, which helps them develop legal skills with pastoral sensibility, while meeting the practical demands of legal praxis among God's people.

Teaching follows a systematic method. It attempts to integrate the many juridical institutions emerging from the study of the Church’s Law within the diverse branches of canonical science. All this, in conformity with the Church’s vision of herself as expressed in the Second Vatican Council.

The program’s realist perspective helps the student to appreciate the dimension of justice that belongs to the salvific goods of the Church even prior to their reception in positive law.  This metaphysical realism offers a much richer viewpoint than the old positivistic outlook, which still influences some currents of canonical thought.  Students learn to seek justice while exercising legal prudence in fidelity to sound ecclesiastical tradition.
The program integrates theoretical study with courses on legal praxis.

The School has a large number of permanent professors as well as many prestigious visiting professors from the Roman Curia and from all over the world.

The School’s research and teaching are enriched by the staff’s experience in various dicasteries of the Holy See and in the Tribunals of the Vicariate of Rome. Close links to and regular academic collaboration with colleagues from other universities of Rome and of other countries also enrich the School, along with the theological research and collaboration of the School of Theology.

 

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Rinnovata la Convenzione con l'Institut Français per borse di studio

L'Università ha rinnovato (dal 30 settembre 2014 al 31 agosto 2015) la Convenzione con l'Institut Français-Centre Saint-Louis.

Giornata di studio della Facoltà di Diritto Canonico, 22 maggio 2014

"Misericordia e diritto nel matrimonio", in occasione del Sinodo sulla Famiglia. 

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La delibazione a trent’anni dall’Accordo di Villa Madama

Lunedì 17 febbraio 2014, dalle ore 9:00, si è svolta la giornata di studio La delibazione a trent'anni dall’Accordo di Villa Madama.

Il Prof. Buonomo nominato Consigliere dello Stato della Città del Vaticano

Il Santo Padre ha nominato Consigliere dello Stato della Città del Vaticano il Prof. Vincenzo Buonomo.