Canon law is the body of laws and regulations made by ecclesiastical
authority (Church
leadership), for the government of a Christian organization or church and its
members. It is the internal ecclesiastical law, or operational policy, governing the Catholic Church (both the Latin Church and the Eastern
Catholic Churches), the Eastern
Orthodox and Oriental
Orthodox churches,
and the individual national churches within the Anglican
Communion.[1] The way that such church law is legislated, interpreted and at times adjudicated varies widely among these three bodies of churches. In all
three traditions, a canon was originally a rule adopted by a church council; these canons formed the foundation of canon
law
.
Christian
Common Law Courts are urgently needed as alternative to the wide spread corrupt
of the secular legal system.
Conclusion The English common law owes much to the
influence of Christian natural law theory. This legal system was originated and
largely influenced by the moral convictions of lawyers, philosophers and
politicians who believed in the existence of a higher law reflecting enduring
principles of freedom, justice and morality. It is impossible therefore to
underestimate the extent to which the common law developed and assumed new
forms as a result of the use of such concepts as ‘natural law’, ‘natural right’
and ‘natural justice’.67 Above all, the common law tradition is inextricably
connected to this particular way of thinking about law and justice. To ignore
this fact results in a diminished understanding of the common law and the
principles that underpin it. Accordingly, the ongoing divorce of the common law
from its own Christian foundations will only bring disaster to the legal
system. It will bring further confusion and lack of objectivity regarding to
the interpretation and application of the law, and simply because our ‘secular’
courts have now basically lost the only objective basis they once had for
effectively upholding the rule of law, even against the government if
necessary.
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