MINISTERS AND THE MINISTRIES IN THE LOCAL CHURCH

Ministers and Ministries in the Local Church is a comprehensive guide to ecclesiastical norms intended to facilitate correct understanding and application of relevant juridical texts and to promote effective pastoral ministry especially in the pluralistic cultural and ritual milieu of the Church in India. In addition to the relevant canons of the Latin and the Eastern codes, it includes norms and citations from the important documents of the Apostolic See as Well as teachings and particular laws affecting the ministry from the three Episcopal bodies in India. Among the significant features of this second edition the reader will find: ‘ revised and updated citations and commentaries in every chapter; and new selected norms and teachings from: – the 2004 Directory for Bishops Apostolorum Successores; – the 2005 instruction Dignitas Connubii on the handling causes of the nullity of marriage by diocesan and inter-diocesan tribunals; – instruction on the admission of persons with homosexual tendencies to the seminary and to holy orders (2005) by the CCE; – doctrinal note on some aspects of evangelization (2007) by the CDF; – the post-synodal apostolic exhortations Sacramentum Caritatis ( 2007) on the Eucharist and Verbum Domini (2010) on the word of God by Pope Benedict XVI; – the 2013 apostolic exhortation Evangel ii Gaudium on the joy of the Gospel by Pope Francis; – the 2010 revised papal norms Sacramentorum Sanctitatis T utela for addressing cases of grave delicts; – the 2013 Pastoral Plan for the Church in India by the CCBI; – the particular laws of the Syro-Malankara (2012) and the Syro-Malabar (2013) Churches sui iuris; the documents on Mutual Relations (2006) between bishops and religious, All India Catholic Education Policy (2007) and the Norms for Dealing with Cases Involving Sexual Abuse of Minors (20l2) by the CBCI.