Chapter — 1917 Code of Canon Law
Chapter IV: Of the Roman Curia
Superseded as law in 1983 — read why this Code still matters. Each canon links to its 1983 counterpart.
The Roman Curia consists of the Sacred Congregations, Tribunals, and Offices, as they are enumerated and described below.
Curia Romana constat Sacris Congregationibus, Tribunalibus et Officiis, prout inferius enumerantur et describuntur.
1983 Code correlation: can. 360
§ 1. In individual Congregations, Tribunals, and Offices discipline is to be observed and business is to be treated according to both general and particular norms which the Roman Pontiff has prescribed for them.
§ 2. All who belong to the Congregations, Tribunals, and Offices of the Roman Curia are bound to preserve secrecy within the limits and according to the manner determined by the discipline proper to each.
§ 1. In singulis Congregationibus, Tribunalibus, Officiis servanda est disciplina et tractanda sunt negotia secundum normas tum generales tum particulares, quas ipsis Romanus Pontifex praestituerit.
§ 2. Omnes qui ad Congregationes, Tribunalia, Officia Romanae Curiae pertinent, ad secretum servandum tenentur intra fines et secundum modum ex disciplina unicuique propria determinatum.
§ 1. Nothing grave or extraordinary is to be done in the same Congregations, Tribunals, or Offices unless it has first been signified to the Roman Pontiff by their Moderators.
§ 2. Any graces and resolutions need pontifical approval, except those for which special faculties have been granted to the Moderators of the same Offices, Tribunals, and Congregations, and except the sentences of the Tribunal of the Sacred Roman Rota and of the Apostolic Signatura.
§ 1. Nihil grave aut extraordinarium in iisdem Congregationibus, Tribunalibus, Officiis agatur, nisi a Moderatoribus eorundem Romano Pontifici fuerit antea significatum.
§ 2. Gratiae quaevis ac resolutiones indigent pontificia approbatione, exceptis iis pro quibus eorundem Officiorum, Tribunalium, Congregationum Moderatoribus speciales facultates tributae sint, exceptisque sententiis Tribunalis Sacrae Romanae Rotae et Signaturae Apostolicae.
A controversy, if any arises, concerning competence among the Sacred Congregations, Tribunals, or Offices of the Roman Curia is settled by a group of Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church whom the Roman Pontiff will have designated on each occasion.
Controversiam, si qua exoriatur, de competentia inter Sacras Congregationes, Tribunalia vel Officia Romanae Curiae, dirimit coetus S.R.E. Cardinalium, quos Romanus Pontifex singulis vicibus designaverit.
Within this chapter
- Article I: Of the Sacred Congregationscann. 246–257
- Article II: Of the Tribunals of the Roman Curiacann. 258–259
- Article III: Of the Offices of the Roman Curiacann. 260–264