School of Canon Law

Diritto Canonico

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.

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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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From February 19th to May 28th, 2025, every Wednesday from 3:00 PM to 4:40 PM, the Schools of Theology and Canon Law are organizing an optional course (3 ECTS) entitled Ecclesial Movements: A Journey of Faith. The Service of Ecclesiastical Law.

On the occasion of our University's 40th anniversary, celebrated in the academic year 2024/25, we are launching the "University Life" Photography Contest, open to students, professors, and administrative staff.

Entries will be accepted until Tuesday, December 3, 2024. As outlined in the Official Notice, the contest aims to capture the most significant moments of your university experience through photography.

Each participant may submit a maximum of three (3) photographs. Photographs must be original and submitted in JPEG format with a resolution of 300 dpi. Works created using computer graphics or artificial intelligence are not permitted. Photographs may be adjusted for brightness and contrast but must not contain structural modifications.

Wednesday, November 13, 2024 (3:00 PM, Benedict XVI Aula), the interdisciplinary CASE Research Group (Co-responsibility, Administration, and Economic Support to the Church), affiliated with the School of Canon Law, organized the 10th Study Day on Canon Law.

The CASE Group’s annual study days aim to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and projects related to stewardship, while offering the opportunity to delve deeper into a specific aspect of this topic at each meeting. This year's theme was compliance in canon law: observing canonical and civil provisions (can. 1284 §2, 3° CIC).

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On Thursday, October 24, 2024 (9:00 am, Aula Magna Giovanni Paolo II), the 2024 Doctoral Students' Day was held at the initiative of the four Schools. After the opening remarks, prof. Jaime Nubiola, emeritus professor of Philosophy at the University of Navarra, gave a lectio magistralis entitled The Intellectual Life of a PhD Student: Reading, Thinking, Writing.

Two round tables followed. One on The First Steps of the PhD, coordinated by profs. José María Díaz, Kenny Ang, and Jaime Moya, and the other on The Thesis Writing Process, coordinated by profs. Gema Bellido, Gonzalo de la Morena, and Claudio Tagliapietra.

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