Pope John Paul II Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Reform of canon law == {{Main|Canon law (Catholic Church)}} John Paul II completed a full-scale reform of the Catholic Church's legal system, Latin and Eastern, and a reform of the Roman Curia. On 18 October 1990, when promulgating the ''[[Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches]]'', John Paul II stated {{blockquote|By the publication of this Code, the canonical ordering of the whole Church is thus at length completed, following as it does...the "[[Pastor Bonus|''Apostolic Constitution on the Roman Curia'']]" of 1988, which is added to both Codes as the primary instrument of the Roman Pontiff for 'the communion that binds together, as it were, the whole Church'<ref>Ap. Const. ''Sacri Canones''. Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, Latin-English Edition, New English Translation (Canon Law Society of America, 2001), page xxv. Cf. ''[[Pastor Bonus]]'' n. 2</ref>}} In 1998, John Paul II issued the [[motu proprio]] ''[[Ad tuendam fidem]]'', which amended two canons (750 and 1371) of the 1983 Code of Canon Law and two canons (598 and 1436) of the 1990 Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. === 1983 ''Code of Canon Law'' === {{Main|1983 Code of Canon Law}} On 25 January 1983, with the Apostolic Constitution ''[[Sacrae disciplinae leges]]'' John Paul II promulgated the current code of canon law for all members of the Catholic Church who belonged to the [[Latin Church]]. It entered into force the first Sunday of the following [[Advent]],<ref name=sacrae>Ap. Const. ''Sacræ Disciplineæ Leges''</ref> which was 27 November 1983.<ref>NYTimes.com, "[https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/27/us/new-canon-law-code-in-effect-for-catholics.html New Canon Law Code in Effect for Catholics]", 27 November 1983, accessed June-25-2013</ref> John Paul II described the new code as "the last document of Vatican II".<ref name=sacrae /> [[Edward N. Peters]] has referred to the 1983 ''Code'' as the "Johanno-Pauline Code"<ref>[http://www.canonlaw.info/masterpage1983.htm Master Page on the Johanno-Pauline Code of 1983], CanonLaw.info, accessed 17 March 2016</ref> (''Johannes Paulus'' is [[Latin]] for "John Paul"), parallelling the [[1917 Code of Canon Law|"Pio-Benedictine" 1917 code]] that it replaced. === ''Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches'' === {{Main|Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches}} John Paul II promulgated the ''[[Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches]]'' (CCEO) on 18 October 1990, by the document ''Sacri Canones''.<ref>''AAS''82 (1990) pp. 1033–1063</ref> The CCEO came into force of law on 1 October 1991.<ref>Thomas Kuzhinapurath, ''Salvific Law: Salvific Character of CCEO, An Historical Overview'', Malankara Seminary Publications, Trivandrum, 2008, p.79</ref> It is the [[Codification (law)|codification]] of the common portions of the [[Canon law of the Catholic Church|canon law]] for the 23 of the 24 ''[[sui iuris]]'' churches in the [[Catholic Church]] that are the [[Eastern Catholic Churches]]. It is divided into 30 titles and has a total of 1540 [[Canon (canon law)|canons]].<ref>Pete Vere & Michael Trueman, "Surprised by Canon Law, Vol. 2" (Cincinnati, Ohio: Servant Books, 2007); pg. 123</ref> === ''Pastor bonus'' === {{Main|Pastor bonus}} John Paul II promulgated the [[apostolic constitution]] ''[[Pastor bonus]]'' on 28 June 1988. It instituted a number of reforms in the process of running the [[Roman Curia]]. ''Pastor bonus'' laid out in considerable detail the organisation of the Roman Curia, specifying precisely the names and composition of each dicastery, and enumerating the competencies of each [[dicastery]]. It replaced the previous special law, ''Regimini Ecclesiæ universæ'', which was promulgated by Paul VI in 1967.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ncregister.com/blog/jimmy-akin/is-pope-francis-about-to-rip-up-the-vatican-constitution-12-things-to-know/ |title=Akin, Jimmy. "Is Pope Francis about to "rip up" the Vatican constitution? 12 things to know and share", ''National Catholic Register'', 2 October 2013 |access-date=18 March 2016 |archive-date=8 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408222800/http://www.ncregister.com/blog/jimmy-akin/is-pope-francis-about-to-rip-up-the-vatican-constitution-12-things-to-know/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page