The Reformation Online presents this marvelous eye-opening little book on the Canon Law of the Papal Throne. Some of it may seem dated due to the "changes" of Vatican Council II, but Rome NEVER really changes because her motto is: semper idem—always the same!!

"So does the canon law place the papal government in authority to sit in judgment on every civil power and restrain all such powers within jurisdictional limits to which the Papacy adjudges them confined by the superior law which it assumes to administer. To no other autocrat since time began have such prerogatives of despotism been arrogated."

By Gilbert Owen Nations, Ph.D. Professor of Roman Law and Canon Law at the American University, Washington City. Fleming H. Revell Company, New York,1926.

Preface
Chapter 1	ORIGIN OF THE CANON LAW
Chapter 2	WHY KEPT IN LATIN
Chapter 3	SOURCES ESSENTIALLY AUTOCRATIC
Chapter 4	ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS AND JURISDICTION
Chapter 5	CONDEMNS GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE
Chapter 6	RELATIONS OF CHURCH AND STATE
Chapter 7	CONDEMNS PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Chapter 8	CANON LAW OF MARRIAGE
Chapter 9	SUPPRESSION OF BOOKS
Chapter 10	CANON LAW OF PROPERTY
Chapter 11	STATUS OF THE CLERGY

Copyright © 2008 by Niall Kilkenny

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