208. Restorative Justice and Care for the Earth
The popes have acknowledged the harm that humans have inflicted on creation and called for the need to care for the earth.
207. Restorative Justice and Sexual Abuse
Restorative justice offers closure to victims, addresses trauma that undermines belief in God and the Church, and reduces instances of moral impediments to receiving the sacraments or participating in liturgical activities, thereby safeguarding spiritual well-being.
206. Restorative Justice and the Spirituality of Canon Law
Restorative justice aims to repair the harm between a victim, the offender, and the community and it is based on three pillars—harms and needs, obligations, and engagement.
205. Social Justice and the Spirituality of Canon Law
“The demands of justice be satisfied lest the giving of what is due in justice be represented as the offering of a charitable gift” (Apostolicam Actuositatem, 8).
204. Legal and Moral Justice and the Spirituality of Canon Law
Legal and moral justice do not depend on what people say but on how the authority’s actions and behaviours correspond to the will of God and promote the holiness journey and salvation of all souls.
203. Distributive Justice and the Spirituality of Canon Law
The remuneration of priests follows distributive justice, which is hinged on equity.
202. Commutative Justice and the Spirituality of Canon Law
Just wages are based on distributive justice. However, paying the agreed wage is commutative justice.
201. The Third Principle: The Virtue of Justice
A law may be legal but immoral. The spirituality of canon law concerns both the legality and morality of the law in making, interpreting, and applying the law.
200. The Second Principle: Conflict between the internal and external forums
The irregularity to orders does not arise from the sinful dimension of abortion but from the delictual dimension.
199. The Second Principle: Sin and delict
An offence can both be a sin and a delict. However, while an offence can be a sin and not a delict, it is rare for a delict not to be a sin.