Associations - Astigueta (Prepared: Hastings)

Question 1

How does one become a legal physical person in the Church?

Answer 1

Baptism

Question 2

How does one become a legal juridic person in the Church?

Answer 2

Either ipso iure or after having been established by competent authority

Question 3

What is the basic characteristic of personality?

Answer 3

Juridic capacity, i.e., being capable of rights and duties

Question 4

What is the legal status of the unbaptized?

Answer 4

They have rights but not juridic capacity. While the code recognizes their presence, they are not legal persons.

Question 5

What is the personality or status of the a de facto association of the faithful?

Answer 5

It has a presence in the law and in the Church, but no juridic capacity. It also has the obligation not to call itself Catholic even though it is not a person.

Question 6

What is the status of catechumens?

Answer 6

They do not have rights and duties, but they do have some privileges.

Question 7

Baptized Non-Catholics: What is their juridic status?

Answer 7

They have rights and duties to the extent that they are in communion with the Church.

Question 8

Baptized Non-Catholics: Are they Christifideles?

Answer 8

Yes

Question 9

What are the three bonds of communion?

Answer 9

Profession on Faith, Sacraments, Governance

Question 10

Baptized Non-Catholics: Are they bound by merely ecclesiastical laws?

Answer 10

Generally not, though there are certain places where they are bound, e.g., marriage to a Catholic.

Question 11

Baptized Non-Catholics: In the law, how are these similar to those in heresy, apostasy or schism?

Answer 11

The similarity is in that all are Christifideles but they cannot exercise rights on account of broken communion

Question 12

Lay Faithful: Negative definition

Answer 12

Those who are unordained

Question 13

Lay Faithful: Positive definition

Answer 13

Those faithful who work to build the kingdom of God in temporal things. (Be able to explain, for example, how marriage is essentially a lay vocation.)

Question 14

204: Christifideles: Definition

Answer 14

Baptized people who participate in the threefold munera and are called to exercise their mission within the Church

Question 15

204.2: How is the Church constituted in the world?

Answer 15

As a constituted and orderered society

Question 16

204.2: How does one find the Church? In other words, who or what needs to be sought out in order to find out where the Church is?

Answer 16

The Roman pontiff. Ubi Petrus, ibi Ecclesia.

Question 17

205: What are the three bonds of communion?

Answer 17

Profession on Faith, Sacraments, Governance

Question 18

Astigueta on Church as Sacrament: For sacraments, what are res tantum, sacramentum tantum, and res et sacramentum?

Answer 18

Res tantum: spiritual grace
Sacramentm tantum: sacramental sign
Res et sacramentum: Sign that makes the grace happen

Question 19

Astigueta on Church as Sacrament: For Church, what are res tantum, sacramentum tantum, and res et sacramentum?

Answer 19

Res tantum: Grace that establishes the Church
Sacraementum tantum: The society
Res et sacramentum: The Church

Question 20

209: What is the foundation of all rights and duties in the Church?

Answer 20

Communion

Question 21

209: Does communion apply to public and private life?

Answer 21

Yes

Question 22

What are the two origins of rights?

Answer 22

1. If I have a good that others could harm and so I need them to respect it. (E.g., the right to life)
2. If I have need of a good from others in order to live a particular life. (E.g., a child’s right to education)

Question 23

What are the two origins of duties?

Answer 23

1. If I have an obligation to respect what another has and not to damage it
2. If I have an obligation to provide something another needs

Question 24

What is a general description of the interplay of rights and duties?

Answer 24

If I have a right to something, I generally have a duty that goes with it, and vice versa.

Question 25

First Axis: 208-207. What does 208 describe?

Answer 25

There is an equality in dignity and action between all Christifideles. Dignity comes from baptism and action gives mission.

Question 26

First Axis: 208-207. What does 207 describe?

Answer 26

There is a diversity among the Christian faithful that is part of divine will. It isn’t as fundamental as baptism, but it is still important. This diversity points to different gifts at the service of the one body. It isn’t only functional, because of the ontological change. For example, celibacy is a sign of the Church beyond just the functions of the priesthood.

Question 27

Second Axis: 223-209: What do these describe?

Answer 27

223: The obligation to maintain the common good.
209: The obligation to maintain communion

Question 28

What is the common good?

Answer 28

The sum of all objective circumstances in which individuals and particular groups reach the essential ends of their nature.

Question 29

What is an association of the faithful?

Answer 29

A stable group of the people of God who come together for a deliberate, common purpose, bound together by organization recognized by Church law.

Question 30

How does a private association act?

Answer 30

In the names of the people involved

Question 31

What is approval?

Answer 31

It is fundamentally connected to juridic personality and essential to a public association.

Question 32

What is recognition?

Answer 32

This is not connected to juridic personality and it is when authority checks statutes.