Czy prawodawca kościelny powinien znać religie niechrześcijańskie?
Does the Church legislator need to know non-Christian religions?

Summary/Abstract: Legislation is widely recognized as an art. The art requires not only the knowledge about a legal system or the legislative techniques. The legislator must also have substantive knowledge about the reality to be regulated. The remark concerns also canon law and Church legislator. The question that can be raised in this context can be formulated as follows: Does a Church legislator need to have any knowledge of doctrine, worship, customs and law of non-Christian religions? The paper presents some areas of law where the knowledge in question can be of help to legislator when he is fulfilling his duty. They are, e.g., matrimonial law, penal law, legal proceedings, international law. The final answer for the research issue is that a Church legislator must know, first of all, the catholic religion. The knowledge of non-Christian religions is not essential for him. Although it can be useful for him in a very limited range.

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