In the

canon law Canon law (from grc, κανών, , a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members. It is th ...

of the

Catholic Church The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

, ''jus remonstrandi'' (

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

for "right of objection") is the legal right to protest a Papal bull,

edict An edict is a decree or announcement of a law, often associated with monarchism, but it can be under any official authority. Synonyms include "dictum" and "pronouncement". ''Edict'' derives from the Latin edictum. Notable edicts * Telepinu Pro ...

, or

law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...

.Torbet, Ronald. "Authority and Obedience in the Church Today— II", ''New Blackfriars'', Volume 50, Issue 592, pages 626–32, September 1969. The right is usually only provided to a

Catholic bishop In the Catholic Church, a bishop is an Holy Orders, ordained Minister (Catholic Church), minister who holds the fullness of the Sacraments of the Catholic Church, sacrament of Holy orders in the Catholic Church, holy orders and is responsible ...

or other high ecclesiastical official.Guth, Hans-Jurgen. "''Ius Remonstrandi'': A Bishop's Right in Law to Protest". ''Revue de droit canonique'' 2002, Volume 52, Number 1, pp. 153-65, specifically Notes 231, 234, 235, and 238.Müller, Hubert. "How the Local Church Lives and Affirms Its Catholicity", ''The Jurist'', Volume 52, 340 (1992).

Contemporary exercise

In 1994,

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politician and canonist

Rik Torfs Henri Maria Dymphna André Laurent "Rik" Torfs (born 16 October 1956) is a Belgian canon law scholar and media personality. He is a former Senator for the Christian Democratic and Flemish party in the Belgian Federal Parliament and a former Recto ...

appealed to bishops to exercise their ''jus remonstrandi'' to protest the Papal letter ''

Ordinatio sacerdotalis ''Ordinatio sacerdotalis'' ( en, Priestly Ordination, italic=yes) is an apostolic constitution issued by Pope John Paul II on 22 May 1994 in which he discussed the Catholic Church's position requiring "the reservation of priestly ordination to men ...

'', which ended the debate on ordination of women to the

Catholic priesthood The priesthood is the office of the ministers of religion, who have been commissioned (" ordained") with the Holy orders of the Catholic Church. Technically, bishops are a priestly order as well; however, in layman's terms ''priest'' refers onl ...

.Torfs, Rik. "A Healthy Rivalry: Human Rights in the Church" in ''Louvain Theological and Pastoral Monographs'', Volume 20. Peeters Publishers, 1992. .

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