This page provides useful resources for anyone who is interested in learning more about canon law. Here one can find the author’s academic contributions, canon law notes, and useful links to canon law-related documents. The aim of this webpage is merely for educational purposes.
1. Author’s Contributions
Prato, Brenda. “Catechesis in the Church’s Legal Tradition: A Comprehensive Overview from its Origins to the 1983 Code of Canon Law.” NomoK@ non (2024). Click here.
Prato, Brenda. “Contemporary Catechesis: Quo Vadis?: A Comparative Analysis of the Latest Papal Teaching and Legislation, and Diocesan Practice.” NomoK@ non (2024). Click here.
2. Lecture Study Notes
2.1 Organisation of the Catholic Church
(Selected Articles)
2.2 Roman Law Reader
(Selected Chapters from Waelkens, Laurent. Amne adverso: Roman legal heritage in European culture. Leuven University Press, 2015)
2.3 Parish Law
(Selected Articles)
2.4 Temporal Goods
(Selected Articles)
2.5 Islamic Law
(Information extracted from: Rohe, Mathias, Islamic Law in Past and Present, Brill: Leiden, 2015)
2.6 Canonical Latin
(These notes are based on five chosen canonical texts in Latin)
3. Canon Law Slides
3.1 Vademecum (2020):
Presentation on Understanding Vademecum
3.2 Vos Estis Lux Mundi (2019):
Presentation on Vos Estis Lux Mundi
3.3 Come Una Madre Amorevole (2016):
Presentation on Come Una Madre Amorevole
3.4 Sacramentorum Sanctitis Tutela (2001):
4. Podcast Participation
5. Codes of Canon Law
The 1990 Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches
6. Useful Canon Law Updates
Competentias Quasdam Decernere (2022)
Vos Estis Lux Mundi AGGIORNAMENTO (2023)
Come Una Madre Amorevole (2016)
Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus (2015)
Mitis et Misericors Iesus (2015)
Sacramentorum Sanctitis Tutela (2001)