2024/2025

Course topics: 1. The sanctifying role of the Church - introduction to the sacraments, their theological basis, nature and their structure. 2. The sacraments of initiation - baptism, confirmation and the blessed eucharist. 3. The sacraments of healing - the sacrament of penance and the anointing of the sick. 4. Community service sacraments - sacrament of the Sacred State and introduction to marriage. 5. Other acts of God\'s cult - shrines, ecclesiastical funeral, cult of saints; sacred places. 6. Canon matrimonial law I - concept, essentials and characteristics of marriage, origin, effects and form of marriage, place of celebration, types (typology) of marriage. 7. Canon matrimonial law II - marital obstacles and their typology, marital consent under canon law, inability to give marital consent, defects in marital consent. Casuistic. 8. Canon matrimonial law III - dissolution of marriage, correction (gaining of the validity) of marriage, marital separation without dissolution of marriage. Casuistic. 9. Canon matrimonial law IV - the nullity of marriage and its reasons, marital processes in canon law and the changes made by Pope Francis. Casuistic. 10. Canon criminal law I - theory of canonical criminal law, reform of Pope Francis, peculiarities of canonical criminal law, types of punishments, their imposition and extinction. 11. Canon criminal law II - individual crimes in canon law; the most serious offenses reserved for the Holy See, a case study. 12. Canon procedural law - jurisdiction, types and levels of tribunals and their staffing, types of proceedings, judges\' statements, remedies, case studies.

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Supervisors and educators:
prof. PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Gábriš, PhD. - Zabezpečuje, Hlavný garant
Ing. Jana Koprlová, PhD. - Kogarant, Schvaľujúci zápis
JUDr. Štefan Zeman, PhD. - Zabezpečuje, Prednášajúci, Cvičiaci, Kogarant, Skúšajúci, Zodpovedný za elearning
ThLic. Mgr. Michaela Moravčíková, Th. D. - Skúšajúci, Zodpovedný za elearning, Kogarant

Code: XNRPb105

Period: LS

Credits: 4

Course topics: 1. Introduction to canon law - concept, subject, principles and specifics of canon law, its relation to secular law. 2. Theory of canon law - canon-law norm, division of norms of canon law. 3. Branches of canon law - a brief overview of code and non-code law. 4. The first book of the Code of Canon Law I - sources of canon law, normative legal acts with special emphasis on ecclesiastical laws, legal customs, normative treaties, administrative acts, case studies. 5. The first book of the Code of Canon Law II - governing power in the Catholic Church. 6. The first book of the Code of Canon Law III - ecclesiastical offices, concept and acquisition of ecclesiastical office, methods of entrustment to ecclesiastical office, loss of ecclesiastical office. 7. The second book of the Code of Canon Law I - God\'s people, duties and rights of believers, lay people, clergy, monks and consecrated persons and their formation. 8. The second book of the Code of Canon Law II - hierarchical structure of the Catholic Church at the universal level, the highest authority of the Church, the Pope and the College of Bishops, cardinals, the Roman Curia, Papal legates. 9. The second book of the Code of Canon Law III - hierarchical establishment of the Catholic Church at the particular level, diocese and quasi-diocese, ecclesiastical province. 10. The second book of the Code of Canon Law IV - personnel structure at the particular level, bishop, conference of bishops, structure of the Catholic Church in Slovakia. 11. The second book of the Code of Canon Law IV - parish and its management, lay people in the parish.

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Supervisors and educators:
prof. PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Gábriš, PhD. - Zabezpečuje, Hlavný garant
Ing. Jana Koprlová, PhD. - Schvaľujúci zápis, Kogarant
JUDr. Štefan Zeman, PhD. - Zabezpečuje, Zodpovedný za elearning, Cvičiaci, Kogarant, Skúšajúci, Prednášajúci
ThLic. Mgr. Michaela Moravčíková, Th. D. - Kogarant, Zodpovedný za elearning, Skúšajúci

Code: XNRPb103

Period: ZS

Credits: 4