They Have Uncrowned Him: 13. Is there a Public Law of the Church?

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🗓️ 15 March 2022

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0:00.0	Chapter 13. Is there a public law of the church?
0:12.2	The church without the state is a soul without a body. The state without the church is a body without a soul.
0:23.2	Pope Leo XIII.
0:25.1	Libertus
0:25.7	What is the status of the church with regard to civil society?
0:33.5	The answer to this question is the object of a special ecclesiastical science, the public
0:40.0	law of the Church.
0:42.2	You can consult the excellent treatises on the Church's public law by Cardinal Ottaviani
0:46.8	and Silvio Romani, as well as the sources presented by Logrosso.
0:52.7	I wish to show you how much liberalism is opposed to the public law of the Church, how it
0:58.1	destroys it, and thus how contrary liberalism is to the faith, upon which rests entirely
1:05.3	the public law of the Church.
1:09.0	The principles of the public law of the Church are indeed truths of faith or deduced from
1:14.0	the faith. They are as follows. Number one, independence of the church. The Church, which has as its
1:23.7	purpose the supernatural salvation of souls, is a perfect society, supplied by its founder
1:30.2	with all the means to subsist by itself in a stable and independent fashion. The syllabus condemns
1:37.5	the following contrary proposition. The church is not a true and perfect society fully free.
1:45.4	It does not possess the proper and constant rights conferred on it by its divine founder,
1:50.9	but it belongs to the civil power to define the rights of the Church,
1:54.7	as well as the limits within which it can exercise them.
2:00.2	Such is indeed the state of subjection to which the liberals want to reduce the church in reference
2:06.5	to the state.
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