01610 2200205 4500001002100000005001500021035002000036007000300056008003900059020002200098082001000120084001600130100001900146245008800165250001100253260004400264500006000308650002500368520101100393INLIS00000000001064120220830024243 a0010-0822000001ta220830 | | |  a978-90-04-41117-3 a262.9 a262.9 MCA c0 aMcAleese, Mary1 aChildrens and obligations in canon law :bthe christening contract /cMary McAleese aVol 14 aLeiden ; Boston :bBrill Nijhoff,c2019 ae-book 4aChildren (Canon law) aIn the first study of its kind Mary McAleese subjects to comprehensive scrutiny the Roman Catholic Churchs 1983 Code of Canon law as it applies to children. The Catholic Church is the worlds largest non-governmental organisation involved in the provision of education and care services to children. It has over three hundred million child members world-wide the vast majority of whom became Church members when they were baptised as infants. Canon law sets out their rights and obligations as members. Children also have rights which are set out in the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child to which the Holy See is State Party. The impact of the Convention on Canon Law is examined in detail and the analysis charts a distinct and worrying sea-change in the attitude of the Holy See to its obligations under the Convention since the clerical sex abuse scandals became a subject of discussion at the Committee on the Rights of the Child, which monitors implementation of the Convention.