CL 128 - Orientation

​CL 128:

Causes of Beatification and Canonization

Course Information

• Course Code: CL 128

• Course Title: Causes of Beatification and Canonization

• Course Credit: 1 unit

• Class Schedule: Thursday/9:00 – 10:00 a.m.

• Course Facilitator: Sr. Melanie S. Reyes, MSBS, JCL

• Contact Details: +(63) 9 19 006 9624 // [e-mail]

Course Description

• Aim: develop students’ competence to assist in procedures necessary to advance the causes of saints 

• Scope:

  • preliminary concepts and ideas relevant to beatification and canonization

  • exposition of the juridical development of canonization from the Early Church to the 1980’s.

  • pertinent canonical and extra-codal substantive and procedural norms pertaining to causes of saints.

  • different officials and personnel involved in the causes of saints, their qualifications, competence, and tasks are discussed.     

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Course Intended Learning Outcomes

​CILOs	​Content	​Activities
​To understand concepts relating to causes of canonization and beatification	​Preliminary Concepts on Causes of Saints Juridical Development of Causes of Canonization	Lecture Case Discussion: Martyrdom and St. Oscar Romero Case Discussion: Dorothy Day

Course Intended Learning Outcomes

​CILOs	​Content	​Activities
To apply normative or canonical principles to specific cases To critique procedures and application of norms to specific cases	​ ​Current Norms on Causes of Canonization: Competent Authority, Officials and Personnel Involved Procedural Norms	​ Lecture Case Discussion: Mo. Rosario Arroyo de la Visitacion

Course Intended Learning Outcomes

​CILOs	​Content	​Activities
To apply norms on administration of temporal goods for Causes of canonization To apply norms of the Church on the Rite of Beatification and Canonization	​The Administration of the Temporal Goods for Causes of Beatification and Canonization The Rite of Beatification and Canonization	Lecture Class Discussion

Course Content

A.     Preliminaries

1. Introduction

2. Causes of Canonization

3. Criteria for Canonization

4. Juridical Development of Canonization from the Early Church to the 1980s

5. Governing Norms on Causes of Canonization

B. ​Current Norms on Beatification and Canonization

1. Competent Authorities

2. Personnel and Officials: Qualifications, Tasks and other norms governing the exercise of their office​

C. Procedural Norms

D. Documentation

E. Administration of Temporal Goods for Causes of Beatification and Canonization

F. Rite of Beatification and Canonization

Course References

Basic Reading:

Codex Iuris Canonici. Pii X Pontificis Maximi, iussu digestus, Auctoritate Benedicti Papae XV. Promulgatus. AAS 9/2 (1917) 11-521.

Codex Iuris Canonici. Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli P.P. II Promulgatus. AAS 75 (1983), I-XIII. 1-317.

John Paul II. Apostolic Constitution Divinus Perfectionis Magister, January 25, 1983. AAS 75/1 (1983) 349-355. Accessed July 16, 2022. https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_consti tutions/documents/hf_jp-ii_apc_25011983_divinus-perfectionis-magister.html)

Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Normae Servandae in Inquisitionibus ab Episcopis Faciendia in Causis Sanctorum, February 7, 1983. AAS 75 (1983) 396- 403.

The Code of Canon Law in English translation. 3rd ed. Pasay City: Paulines Publishing House, 2007.

The 1917 or Pio-Benedictine Code of Canon Law in English Translation with Extensive Scholarly Apparatus, Edward Peters, curator, San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2001.

Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Notice of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints on New Procedures in the Rite of Beatifications, September 29, 2005. Accessible here: http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/csaints/documents/rc_con_csaints_do c_20050929_comunicato_lt.html.

Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Instruction Sanctorum Mater, May 17, 2007. AAS 99 (2007) 465-510.

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Course References

Francis. Rescriptum ex Audientia Sanctissimi: Norme sull’amministrazione dei bene delle 247 Cause di beatificazione e canonizzazione. L’Osservatore Romano, March 11, 2016. English translation: L’Osservatore Romano, Weekly Edition in English, Friday, March 18, 2016.

Francis. Motu Proprio‘Maiorem hac Dilectionem’ De Oblatione Vitae, July 12, 2017. AAS 109 (2017) 831-834. English translation: L’Osservatore Romano, Weekly Edition in English, Friday July 14, 2017.

Extended Reading:

John Paul II. Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus, June 28, 1988: AAS 80 (1988) 841- 912.

Francis. Apostolic Exhortation Gaudete et Exsultate, March 19, 2018. Accessible here: http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papafrancesco_esortazione-ap_20180319_gaudete-et-exsultate.html.

William Woestman, O.M.I. ed., Canonization: Theology, History and Process. Ottawa: Saint Paul University Press, 2014.

Jeannine Marino, Be Perfect, Just as Your Heavenly Father is Perfect: An Examination of the Juridic Nature of the Diocesan Phase of Causes of Beatification and Canonization. A Dissertation. Catholic University of America: Washington DC, 2020.

Grading System

• Performance Task Assessment - 40 %

• Class Participation (Discussion/Reporting) - 30 %

• Major Examinations - 30%

Course Requirements

• Case Presentation for Class Discussion

• Position Paper on a Candidate for Sainthood

• Major Examinations