Folia Theologica et Canonica 4. 26/18 (2015)
RECENSIONS
RECENSIONS 281 tution, the Code is divided into seven books. The first one contains the general norms, organized them under eleven titles. Book II speaks about the People of God; the III deals with the teaching mission of the Church; the IV describes the sanctifying function; the V summarizes the discipline on temporal goods; the VI explains the sanctions (penal law); and finally Book VII is dedicated to the ecclesiastical process law. We would like to underline that although the Code of Canon Law is a prominent source of the current discipline of the Church, many other disciplinary sources and laws determine the internal life of the Church, including fields of liturgy, process law, and central hierarchical system of the Church. Nevertheless, it must be emphasized that CIC Can. 6 § 2 expressively touched upon those particular cases when the canonist basically needs to consider the old law. Such a case could be when a particular text from the Corpus iuris canonici literally had taken place in the Code. More than three decades have spent after the promulgation of the new Code of Canon Law (1983) and during this time its text has been indeed modified several times at different places. In the same time - by the influence of other universal laws or particular norms - every single canonical field has crystallized, even its standard interpretation (particularly through the activity of the Pontifi- cium Consilium de Legum Textibus). The interpretative notes which have been attached to the authentic texts has become more precise during this process, moreover have developed the genres of commentary-literature of the Codex. Among them can be mentioned the one-volume commentary, i.e. Código de Derecho Canònico. Edición bilingue comentada and Código de Derecho Canònico. Edición anotada based on Spanish canonical scholarly tradition. Both of these volumes have been edited several times in various languages (Italian, French, English). There is another one-volume annotated text as the basic Italian commentary, i.e. Commento al Codice di diritto canonico, which was edited in 1985 and published again in revised form in 2001. This volume has become the first of those three which is called “new” Corpus Iuris Canonici (i.e. CIC; CCEO; Ap. Const. Pastor Bonus, June 28lh 1988). In the USA was edited The Code of Canon Law. A Text and Commentary (1985), than the second edition (2000) with much more unified and precise style and comments. The most elaborated commentary to the Code of Canon Law is the so called “exegetical commentary”, the first publication was in Pamplona (1996), describing its contents in five volumes. This Spanish edition was translated to English in Canada and published in 2004. If we compare Peter Erdő’s bilingual Codex edition with the afore-mentioned commentaries, it is clear that he used the one-volume form, but its annotations are much more detailed and descriptive, making good balance among the different schools of canon law science. Card. Peter Erdő has inserted every official alteration and modification into the main text of the Code which was promul
