Part — 1917 Code of Canon Law
Part Three: Of the Laity
Superseded as law in 1983 — read why this Code still matters. Each canon links to its 1983 counterpart.
The laity have the right of receiving from the clergy, according to the norm of ecclesiastical discipline, spiritual goods and above all the helps necessary for salvation.
Laici ius habent recipiendi a clero, ad normam ecclesiasticae disciplinae, spiritualia bona et potissimum adiumenta ad salutem necessaria.
1983 Code correlation: can. 213
It is not lawful for lay persons to wear clerical habit, unless there is question either of students of Seminaries and other aspirants to orders of whom in can. 972, Sec. 2, or of lay persons legitimately assigned to the service of the church, while they are within the same church or outside it have a part in some ecclesiastical ministry.
Non licet laicis habitum clericalem deferre, nisi agatur vel de Seminariorum alumnis aliisque adspirantibus ad ordines de quibus in can. 972, § 2, vel de laicis, servitio ecclesiae legitime addictis, dum intra eandem ecclesiam sunt aut extra ipsam in aliquo ministerio ecclesiastico partem habent.
Within this part
- Title XVIII: Of Associations of the Faithful in Generalcann. 684–699
Title XIX: Of Associations of the Faithful in Particularcann. 700–725
- Chapter I: Of Secular Third Orderscann. 702–706
- Chapter II: Of Confraternities and Pious Unionscann. 707–719
- Chapter III: Of Archconfraternities and Primary Unionscann. 720–725