The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the canon law of the Catholic Church:
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Catholic canon law is the set of rules and principles (laws) by which the Catholic Church is governed, through enforcement by governmental authorities. Law is also the field which concerns the creation and administration of laws.
Current law
- 1983 Code of Canon Law
- Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches
- Ad tuendam fidem
- Ex corde Ecclesiae
- Indulgentiarum Doctrina
- Pastor bonus
- Veritatis gaudium
- Custom
Legal history
Corpus Juris Canonici
Ancient Church Orders
Collections of ancient canons
- Collectiones canonum Dionysianae
- Collectio canonum quadripartita
- Collectio canonum Quesnelliana
- Collectio canonum Wigorniensis
Other
- Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals
- Benedictus Deus (Pius IV)
- Contractum trinius
- Defect of birth
- Jus exclusivae
- Papal appointment
- Right of option
Eastern Catholic canon law
Liturgical law
Sacramental law
Holy Orders
Confession
- Apostolic Penitentiary
- Complicit absolution
- Canon penitentiary
- Internal and external forum
- Paenitentiale Theodori
- Penitential canons
- Seal of the Confessional
Eucharist
Matrimonial law
Impediments to marriage
Matrimonial dispensation
Trials and tribunals
Tribunal officers
Tribunal procedure
Canonical structures
Particular churches
- Particular churches sui juris
- Local particular churches
Juridic persons
Jurisprudence
- Benefice
- Canonical coronation
- Computation of time
- Contract law
- Custom
- Delegata potestas non potest delegari
- Derogation
- Dispensation
- Indult
- Impediment
- Interpretation
- Jurisdiction
- Peritus
- Obreption & subreption
- Obrogation
- Promulgation
- Resignation of the Roman Pontiff
- Sede vacante
- Vacatio legis
- Valid but illicit
Philosophy, theology, and fundamental theory of Catholic canon law
Law of persons
- Person (Catholic canon law)
- Canonical age
- Canonical faculties
- Clerics and public office
- Clerical celibacy
- Consecrated life
- Defect of birth
- Emancipation
- Juridic & physical persons
- Jus patronatus
- Laicization (dispensation)
Canonical documents
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis
- Notary (Catholic canon law)
- Apostolic constitution
- Canon
- Concordat
- Decree
- Decretal
- Encyclical
- Motu proprio
- Ordinance
- Papal brief
- Papal bull
- Penitential
- Positive law
- Rescript
Penal law
- Canon 1324
- Canon 1397 §2
- Censure (canon law)
- Excommunication
- Interdict
- Internal and external forum
- Laicization (penal)
- Latae sententiae
- Ferendae sententiae
- Lifetime of prayer and penance
Procedural law
Election of the Roman Pontiff