Aequitas canonica and Access to the Sacrament of Penance during the First Wave of COVID-19 in 2020 in the Light of the Principles of Canon Law

• Authors: Damián Němec

Title variants

FR

Aequitas canonica et accès au sacrement de pénitence lors de la première vague de COVID-19 en 2020 à la lumière des principes du droit canonique

Abstracts

PL

Rozporządzenia epidemiologiczne podczas pierwszej fali epidemii koronawirusa w 2020 r. znacząco wpłynęły na korzystanie z wolności religijnej, w tym z kultu i sakramentów. Niniejsze opracowanie podejmuje jeden węższy temat z tego zakresu, a mianowicie regulację dostępu do sakramentu pokuty. W szczególności skupia się na sposobach umożliwienia dostępu do tego sakramentu w Kościele katolickim, zarówno w aspekcie prawa powszechnego, jak i prawa partykularnego oraz propozycjach jego sformułowania, a przede wszystkim ocenia te propozycje pod kątem zasad prawa kanonicznego.

FR

Les ordonnances épidémiologiques lors de la première vague de COVID-19 en 2020 ont affecté de manière significative l’exercice de la liberté religieuse, y compris le culte et les sacrements. La présente étude aborde un sujet plus restreint de ce domaine, à savoir la réglementation de l’accès au sacrement de pénitence. Elle se concentre en particulier sur la manière dont l’accès à ce sacrement a été rendu possible dans l’Église catholique, tant en termes de droit commun que de droit particulier, ainsi que sur les propositions visant à le formuler, et surtout, elle évalue ces propositions du point de vue des principes du droit canonique.

EN

Epidemiological measures during the first wave of the coronavirus epidemic in 2020 significantly affected the realization of religious freedom, including religious services and sacraments. This paper deals with one narrower topic in this area, namely, the regulation of access to the sacrament of penance in response to measures of secular law. It focuses mainly on the modalities of allowing access to this sacrament in the Catholic Church, both in terms of universal law and in terms of particular law and proposals for its formulation.

Keywords

PL

Kościoły i związki wyznaniowe; wolność religijna; ograniczenie praw; Kościół katolicki; sakramenty; sakrament pokuty; prawo kanoniczne; analogia prawa

EN

Churches and religious societies; religious freedom; restriction of rights; Catholic Church; sacraments; Sacrament of Penance; canon law; analogy

FR

églises et associations religieuses; liberté religieuse; limitation des droits; sacrements; sacrement de pénitence; droit canonique; analogie du droit; Église catholique

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Śląski
• Journal: Philosophy and Canon Law
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 1-18

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Damián Němec

• Palacký University in Olomouc

• https://orcid.org/0000000299602452

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Identifiers

DOI

10.31261/PaCL.2022.08.2.04

Biblioteka Nauki

25738699