Chapter — 1917 Code of Canon Law
Chapter III: Of Sacred Missions
Superseded as law in 1983 — read why this Code still matters. Each canon links to its 1983 counterpart.
§ 1. Let Ordinaries watch that at least every tenth year pastors take care that the sacred mission, as they call it, be held for the flock committed to them.
§ 2. A pastor, even a religious one, in arranging these missions must stand by the mandates of the local Ordinary.
§ 1. Ordinarii advigilent ut, saltem decimo quoque anno, sacram, quam vocant, missionem, ad gregem sibi commissum habendam parochi curent.
§ 2. Parochus, etiam religiosus, in his missionibus instituendis mandatis Ordinarii loci stare debet.
1983 Code correlation: can. 770
§ 1. Local Ordinaries and pastors are to have non-Catholics living in their dioceses and parishes commended to themselves in the Lord.
§ 2. In other territories the whole care of missions among non-Catholics is reserved uniquely to the Apostolic See.
§ 1. Ordinarii locorum et parochi acatholicos, in suis dioecesibus et paroeciis degentes, commendatos sibi in Domino habeant.
§ 2. In aliis territoriis universa missionum cura apud acatholicos Sedi Apostolicae unice reservatur.
1983 Code correlation: can. 771
No unwilling person is to be compelled to embrace the Catholic faith.
Ad amplexandam fidem catholicam nemo invitus cogatur.
1983 Code correlation: can. 748