How to Use canon law in a Sentence

canon law

noun
  • Remember the Sorbonne in the great days of the canon law.
    — John Dos Passos, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The church’s canon law often worked to protect the guilty priests and frustrate the rights of victims.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2019
  • This entire season is starting to feel like a typo in the tomes of SEC canon law.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Laicization, or being reduced to the lay state, is one of the harshest sanctions in the church’s canon law.
    — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Laicization, or being reduced to the lay state, is one of the harshest sanctions in the church's canon law.
    — Arkansas Online, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Laicization, or being reduced to the lay state, is one of the harshest sanctions in the church's canon law.
    — Arkansas Online, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Laicization, or being reduced to the lay state, is one of the harshest sanctions in the church's canon law.
    — Nicole Winfield, Chron, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Laicization, or being reduced to the lay state, is one of the harshest sanctions in the church's canon law.
    — Arkansas Online, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Laicization, or being reduced to the lay state, is one of the harshest sanctions in the church’s canon law for priests.
    — Nicole Winfield, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Laicization, or being reduced to the lay state, is one of the harshest sanctions in the church's canon law for priests.
    — CBS News, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The penal code is based on the Italian criminal code with elements of canon law.
    — Nicole Winfield, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Defrocking a priest is among the most severe punishments in canon law.
    — New York Times, 1 June 2021
  • By the 13th century, the procedures of the court trial were defined and adopted, both in canon law – that is, the church law – and in secular law.
    — Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2020
  • To people who don’t worship at the altar of canon law, that might seem like an academic distinction.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Francis remained in charge of the Vatican and the 1.3-billion strong Catholic Church, even while unconscious and in the hospital, according to canon law.
    — Nicole Winfield, ajc, 8 June 2023
  • Over the years, popes have made piecemeal modifications to the Vatican's city state's legal code, which dates from an 1889 Italian code no longer in use and also draws from the Catholic Church's in-house canon law.
    — Nicole Winfield, Star Tribune, 16 Feb. 2021
  • In church, or canon law, parishes are separate entities with rights to their properties, but for decades titles to the properties were held by the diocese.
    — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Talk grew over whether the time had come to enshrine restrictions on the conduct of papal retirees into canon law, and the Vatican scrambled to insist that there was nothing to see here.
    — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2020
  • The case would then be referred to the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith for canon law processes to be undertaken.
    — Steven Martinez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 June 2020
  • No beachside ceremonies or mountaintop nuptials: The code of canon law, straight from the Vatican, says that marriages performed by a priest are meant to be celebrated in the bride or groom's parish church.
    — Julie Zauzmer, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2018
  • No beachside ceremonies or mountaintop nuptials: The code of canon law, straight from the Vatican, says that marriages performed by a priest are meant to be celebrated in the bride or groom's parish church.
    — Julie Zauzmer, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2018
  • No beachside ceremonies or mountaintop nuptials: The code of canon law, straight from the Vatican, says that marriages performed by a priest are meant to be celebrated in the bride or groom's parish church.
    — Julie Zauzmer, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2018
  • No beachside ceremonies or mountaintop nuptials: The code of canon law, straight from the Vatican, says that marriages performed by a priest are meant to be celebrated in the bride or groom's parish church.
    — Julie Zauzmer, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2018
  • No beachside ceremonies or mountaintop nuptials: The code of canon law, straight from the Vatican, says that marriages performed by a priest are meant to be celebrated in the bride or groom's parish church.
    — Julie Zauzmer, ajc, 11 June 2018
  • No beachside ceremonies or mountaintop nuptials: The code of canon law, straight from the Vatican, says that marriages performed by a priest are meant to be celebrated in the bride or groom's parish church.
    — Julie Zauzmer, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2018
  • No beachside ceremonies or mountaintop nuptials: The code of canon law, straight from the Vatican, says that marriages performed by a priest are meant to be celebrated in the bride or groom's parish church.
    — Julie Zauzmer, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2018
  • No beachside ceremonies or mountaintop nuptials: The code of canon law, straight from the Vatican, says that marriages performed by a priest are meant to be celebrated in the bride or groom's parish church.
    — Julie Zauzmer, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2018
  • No beachside ceremonies or mountaintop nuptials: The code of canon law, straight from the Vatican, says that marriages performed by a priest are meant to be celebrated in the bride or groom’s parish church.
    — Julie Zauzmer, Washington Post, 11 June 2018
  • According to William Daniel, a professor of canon law at Catholic University, a priest asked by his bishop to resign has the option of submitting a defense.
    — Todd Richmond and David Crary, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2021
  • In Los Angeles, the sale of any property for more than $7.5 million would require permission from the Vatican, according to canon law.
    — Alene Tchekmedyian, latimes.com, 12 Mar. 2018

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