The team of the Chair of Canon Law welcomes you on these pages. Here we inform you about the profile of our department, the tasks of the chair, introduce the staff and their main areas of research. You will also find current information about conferences and excursions.
The Professorship of Canon Law cordially invites you to the course "The Wellbeing of the Child: Promotion - Protection - Rights" in the winter semester 2024/2025. Methodologically speaking, this is a series of lectures in which experts will examine the topic of "child welfare" from various perspectives.
Registrationfor the course takes place via the central distribution procedure: https: //www.uni-erfurt.de/studium/studium-fundamentale/verteilungsverfahren. The course will be held in German.
Information: The Wellbeing of the Child: Promotion-Protection-Rights
This Seminar is a multi-dimensional course, aimed to students from diverse academic studies who are interested in gaining interdisciplinary knowledge concerning the wellbeing of the children. The purpose of the course is to reflect on the notion of wellbeing of children from some of the most relevant perspectives, such as legal, medical, social, psychological, ethical, theological etc.
Students will be able to appreciate and understand the multidimensional aspects that come into play when attending to the wellbeing of children. Different disciplines offer their own valuable contribution and need to be seen in connection to each other.
From a methodological perspective: this course will be offered as a Module of the Studium Fundamentale during the winter-semester 2024/2025. It consists of a series of weekly lectures given by different experts from around the world. Guest lecturers will give an online 60-minute presentation in their field of expertise and will be available for a 30-minute discussion with the students.
All lectures will be held in English.
Die Universität Durham hat Prof. Dr. Myriam Wijlens, Kirchenrechtlerin an der Universität Erfurt, erneut zu Honorarprofessorin ernannt. Diese Ehre wurde ihr seit 2012 bereits mehrfach zuteil.
Mit der Professur ist insbesondere eine Forschungskooperation im Projekt "Receptive Ecumenism" verbunden. Prof. Wijlens und Prof. Dr. Paul Murray, der Leiter des Departments of Theology and Religion in Durham, wurden u.a. wegen dieses Projektes 2018 vom Päpstlichen Rat zur Förderung der Einheit der Christen im Vatikan und von der Anglikanischen Kirche in Canterbury als Experten für den internationalen Dialog zwischen den Anglikanern und Katholiken ernannt (ARCIC III). Zu diesem Projekt gehört auch die Erforschung der Strukturen der Entscheidungsfindung in den beiden Kirchen. Damit in engem Zusammenhang steht überdies die Forschung von Myriam Wijlens zum Thema „Transparency – Accountability – Responsability: Reform of Church Structures and Practices"
Offizielle Mitteilung der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Erfurt
Den Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Myriam Wijlens zum Thema
"The Church of God is Convoked in Synod": Theological and Canonical Challenges
Concerning the 2021-2023 Synod
vom 19.11.2021 am Tillard Chair des Angelicum in Rom, können Sie hier gerne nachhören.
On Sunday 9 October 2021, Pope Francis started off the synodal process of the universal church. He will be advised by, among others, the Erfurt canon lawyer Myriam Wijlens, who makes clear: Different rules must apply in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern than in Bombay.
You can read the whole article about the interview, as well as the interview itself by Prof Wijlens with Renardo Schlegelmilch from DOMRADIO.DE here.
The universal Church will have much to learn from the global south at the Synod of Bishops about Synodality in the fall of 2023. "It's going to be an exciting story," said Prof. Myriam Wijlens, whom Pope Francis recently appointed as a consultor of the Synod of Bishops. She considers Synodality - the common journeying of the People of God - to be an extremely urgent topic.
You can read the whole article about the interview of Prof. Wijlens with Grudrun Sailer from Vatican News here.
Prof. Myriam Wijlens, Mitglied der Päpstlichen Kinderschutzkommission, begrüßt ein neues Vademecum über die Verfahren in Fällen sexuellen Missbrauchs von Minderjährigen und bezeichnet es als einen großen Schritt vorwärts bei der Suche nach Gerechtigkeit und Wahrheit. Lesen Sie mehr.
Here you will find important information about exams in canon law.
Materials:
The following materials are generally permitted in the canon law examinations and are provided by the examination chairpersons/supervisors:
- Codex Iuris Canonici (CIC), with a supplement on the amendments in the case of older editions.
- Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium (CCEO).
Today, our graduates are active in many areas in Church and society, for example, in the German Bishops' Conference, in (inter)diocesan offices or in the leadership of a diocese.
Do you have questions about how to continue in the field of canon law after graduation?
We will be happy to advise you!
Here you will find a collection of important links:
Sources texts for canon law
Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium (1990)
Direktorium zur Ausführung der Prinzipien und Normen über den Ökumenismus (1993)
Instruktion zu einigen Fragen über die Mitarbeit der Laien am Dienst der Priester (1997)
Collection of materials
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