This course provides the student with an opportunity to examine
canonical issues useful to those preparing for pastoral ministry. Rather
than an abstract outline of principles of law, the study focuses on an
interpretation and application of canon law for ministry in the
southwestern U.S.A. The basic content includes an overview of the 1983
Code of Canon Law and, in particular, a treatment of Book II, The People
of God, and of Book IV, The Sanctifying Office of the Church. Topics
covered relate to Ecclesiology (TS 7315), Theology of Priesthood (TS
7236), Ecumenism (TS 7223), Christian Initiation (TS 7331), Penance and
Anointing of the Sick (TS 7332), and Eucharist (TS 7333).