He was the first pope to do so since Gregory XII in 1415. John P. Beal et al. Without prejudice to the prescripts of the statutes, administrators invalidly place acts which exceed the limits and manner of ordinary administration unless they have first obtained a written faculty from the ordinary. [From Robert T. Kennedy, "Juridic Persons" in New Commentary on the Code of Canon Law, ed. Italic text added.]

according to the norms of Canons 1281-1288 (Canon 532).
§2. Canon 1281 §1 Without prejudice to the provisions of the statutes administrators act invalidly when they go beyond the limits and manner of ordinary administration, unless they have first received in writing from the Ordinary the faculty to do so. 532 In all juridical matters, the parish priest acts in the person of the parish, in accordance with the law. Canon 1281.

533 §1 The parish priest is obliged to reside in the parochial house, near the church.

It is impossible to say exactly when the new custom became universal or when, by the Church's approval, it acquired the force of law. §2 The statutes are to determine what acts go beyond the limits and manner of ordinary administration. Can.
The most recent pope to resign was Benedict XVI, who vacated the Holy See on 28 February 2013. B. Operative Civil Law Canon law makes it mandatory for all administrators of temporal goods to ensure that the ownership of ecclesiastical goods is safeguarded in ways which are valid in civil law (Canon 1284, §2, 2 ).

He is to ensure that the parish goods are administered in accordance with cann. All juridic persons should have statutes (c. 117). 1281 - 1288. Can. Comprehensive Compilation of Canon Law workshop of Maître Honoré , France, Paris , 1281-1300 This legal codex includes: Gregory IX, "Decretales", edited by Raymond of Peñafort, with the "Glossa ordinaria" of Bernard of Parma – Gregory X, "Constitutiones novissimae", with the gloss of Johannes Garsias Hispanus, and seven further legal texts.

“The pastor represents the parish in all juridic affairs in accord with the norm of law; he is to see to it that the goods of the parish are administered in accord with the norms of canons 1281-1288.” Canon 537 introduces the Parish Finance Council as a mandated body having an advisory and consultative role with the pastor. The Council of Lambeth (1281) directs that wine is to be received by the priest alone, and non-consecrated wine is to be received by the faithful (Mansi, XXIV, 405). (New York/Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2000) 155. Juridic persons are constituted either by the law or by the grant of competent authority (c. 114 §1). The later development of canon law has been in favor of papal supremacy, leaving no recourse to the removal of a pope involuntarily.

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