Are the disciplines current Canon Law?

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Discipline: Any rule, regulation, law and direction set down by the authority of the Church for guiding the faithful toward the perfection of the Gospel in their own lives and the life of the Church as a whole.

The discipline of the Church is the one area that has most effective power over the faithful. This is the place where we feel it the most because this area is subject to change and is the most visible reflection of our every day faith. Examples of disciplinary customs and regulations would be; abstaining from meat on Friday, married clergy, communion in the hand, altar-girls, saying the Mass in Latin or the vernacular, the obligation to go to Mass on designated Holy Days, etc. These things can change due to circumstances within a particular diocese or throughout the entire Church. In matters of discipline the Church is not infallible. The duty of the Magisterium in these matters is to create the most conducive atmosphere toward our salvation. The Church has the right and necessary obligation to place whatever strictures and sanctions it sees fit in order to coerce those who do not have the strength on their own to do those actions which are ultimately to their own benefit.
 
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Discipline: Any rule, regulation, law and direction set down by the authority of the Church for guiding the faithful toward the perfection of the Gospel in their own lives and the life of the Church as a whole.

The discipline of the Church is the one area that has most effective power over the faithful. This is the place where we feel it the most because this area is subject to change and is the most visible reflection of our every day faith. Examples of disciplinary customs and regulations would be; abstaining from meat on Friday, married clergy, communion in the hand, altar-girls, saying the Mass in Latin or the vernacular, the obligation to go to Mass on designated Holy Days, etc. These things can change due to circumstances within a particular diocese or throughout the entire Church. In matters of discipline the Church is not infallible. The duty of the Magisterium in these matters is to create the most conducive atmosphere toward our salvation. The Church has the right and necessary obligation to place whatever strictures and sanctions it sees fit in order to coerce those who do not have the strength on their own to do those actions which are ultimately to their own benefit.
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Disciplines are in the current cannon laws both for Latin Catholic (CIC and territorial laws) and eastern Catholic (CCEO and particular laws). There is also liturgical law.
 
It seems to me that you are thinking that discipline and canon law are the same thing. They are not.

Discipline simply means that the issue of one of keeping good order in the Church. Discipline can and does change.

Canon law does contain some disciplinary laws. Canon Law also sometimes repeats Divine Law. Not all Canon Law can be called “merely discipline” and thereby subject to change. Even within Canon Law there is a hierarchy of laws, ranging from minor disciplinary laws all the way to Divine Law itself.
 
Thank u Father…were there any countries in the past that were ran according to these laws such as isalm does within theirs?

I know there were Catholic monarchies.

Is the Vatican city state ran by these laws?
 
Thank u. I know there are canon lawyers for issues like annulments but what all do they do with these various laws? Are they used mainly for Priests?
 
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Thank u Father…were there any countries in the past that were ran according to these laws such as isalm does within theirs?

I know there were Catholic monarchies.

Is the Vatican city state ran by these laws?
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I don’t understand the questions.

What do you mean by “these laws”?
 
Has there ever been a time in history where the Canon laws were the laws of a nation?

Are they the laws of the Vatican city state?
 
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Has there ever been a time in history where the Canon laws were the laws of a nation?
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In the later Roman Empire (roughly beginning with Constantine) the laws of the Church were intertwined with Roman Imperial Law. In many ways, they were one and the same. Research something called the “Code of Justinian”
Are they the laws of the Vatican city state?
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Not the way I think you mean it. Vatican City State has its own code of civic laws. The Code of Canon Law has legal force in Vatican City State, but again, not in the way you’re thinking. People don’t get arrested or fined for breaking Canon Law. If someone steals a tourist’s wallet (for example) inside Vatican City State, that person is prosecuted under the civic law. Canon Law would have nothing do to with it.

The Code of Canon Law as we know it today did not exist until modern times. Before 1917, the Church had a vast collection of laws compiled over the centuries, together with accepted interpretations and legal precedent. It was not until 1917 that the first true Code came into being—a single source of laws, one after the other.
 
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