Folia Theologica et Canonica 4. 26/18 (2015)
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278 RECENSIONS law, the force of which no hierarchical level is able to dispense with. On the other hand, even in relation to purely ecclesiastical laws, it must be noted that these have a singular bond with divine law as the means of the observance and application of its content. These means were crystallized during the Church’s life, first in the customary law of administering the sacraments and proclaiming the Gospel, and then in written form (p. 160).” Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi, O.Praem. summurizes by these words his newly published volume. Prof. Szuromi is the President of the Catholic University of Budapest and he also leads the Canon Law Institute "ad instar facultatis” since 2006. His fundamental researches are really remarkable concerning the canon law source (in particular primary original high medieval hand writing sources), institute and science history. However, at the same time he is very active teacher and invited expert of several Hungarian, European and American universities from 2000; moreover, since 2015 he is member of the Academia Europeae (London). In his new book he present the some extraordinary importan fields of the doctrinal and disciplinary teaching of the Catholic Church. It is always explained based on the original sources, through the christalization process of the concrete institue and activity of the Church, including administration of the sacraments. This new Italian volume summarizes the author’s research of the last decade in this field. The work is arranged into eleven chapters, which follow the structure of the current Code of Canon Law by their themes. The rich and precisely supported material of the volume contains comparison of the state and the Church legislation, paying attention on the basic methodological differences between them (pp. 13-24); the analysis of function of the diocesan chapters and the change in their competence, based on the second codification (pp. 25-34); the description of the relation between parishes and the institutes of consacrated life and societies of the apostolic life (pp. 35-44); the classification of the individual obligations and rights of institutes of the consacrated life and societies of the apostolic life (pp. 45-54); the historical explanation of reform of the canonical life, considering the decisions of the Second Vatican Council, the New Code of Canon Law and other disciplinary sources, through the example of the disciplinary development of the Norbertine Order and its constitutions (pp. 55-66); deliberations on the categories and process of transition from a religious institute into another institute of the consacrated life and societies of the apostolic life (pp. 67-74); comments on the rules of administering of batism, based on disciplinary, dogmatic theological and liturgical sources (pp. 75-88); enlightening the nature of the current liturgical rules regarding the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, with particular attention to their prescribed obligatory following (pp. 89-104); summary on the current discipline of the ecclesiastical funeral and burial (pp. 105-112); detailed description of the canon law historical background of the discipline of “delicta graviora”, concerning every single delict, its classification and those sanctions which possible mete to the peccant (pp.
