The Place of Societas Perfecta in the Contemporary Discourse of the Roman Catholic Church

In the Institutiones iuris publici ecclesiastici, (Public Law of the Church), Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani develops the concept of societas perfecta applying it to the Roman Catholic Church. Using the natural law theories popularized by Pufendorf and Protestant defenders of civil rights, Ottaviani dev...

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