The Church, Persons, and Juridical Goods: An Introduction to Canon Law

Chapter1,
The Right, Justice, and Norms,
Foundations of Canon law,
The Right as ipsa res iusta,
Analysis of the virtue of justice,
The foundation and the title of the right,
The right and the law,
Knowledge of the Right,
Bibliographic orientation,
Chapter 2,
Law in the mystery of the Church,
Anti-Juridicism in the Church and attempts to provide a foundation for Canon Law,
The mystery of the Church and justification of Canon Law,
The Sacramental roots of Law and Justice in the Church,
Canon Law and Pastoral care,
Knowledge of Law in the Church,
Bibliographic orientation,
Chapter 3,
Canon Law in History,
Since when has law existed in the Church?,
Juridical challenges of the Church in the Roman Empire,
The Church during Feudalism (6th-12th centuries),
Crisis and Reform,
Classical and post-classical Canon Law(1140 to 1563),
Bibliographic orientation,
Chapter 4,
The Relationship between the Church and Civil Society,
A Historical issue of the institutional distribution of power,
The current issue of justice in the relationship between the Church and Civil Society,
Bibliographic orientation,
Chapter 5,
Constitutional Juridical Principles of the Church,
Person and faithful. The principle of fundamental equality,
Functional diversity,
The hierarchical principle,
Bibliographic orientation,
Chapter6,
The Basic Rights and Duties of the Faithful,
Existence and Characteristics of fundamental rights and duties,
Analysis of the fundamental rights of the faithful,
Fundamental duties,
Bibliographic orientation,
Chapter 7,
The Juridical Dimension of the Associational Phenomenon in the Church,
Associations of the Church,
Some issues related to the right of Association,
By way of Conclusion: in what does the juridical dimension of associational realities in the Church consist?,
Bibliographic orientation,
Chapter8,
The Juridical status of sacred Ministers or Clerics,
The sacred ministry: Ordination, incardination, mission,
The formation of clerics,
Rights and duties,
the loss of the clerical state,
Bibliographic orientation,
Chapter 9,
Juridical profiles of consecrated life,
Consecrated life: history, notion, and essence,
Rights and duties of religious,
Autonomy and public dimension of institutes ,
Bibliographic orientation,
Chapter10,
Just Government in the Church,
The Right to good governance,
The different functions of Government,
Legislative activity and the rationality (realism) of norms,
The legal principles of administrative governance,
Juridical due process,
Excursus: obedience, freedom, and justice in the Church,
Bibliographic orientation

Systematization of Law and Codification