Vjernici (Christifideles), kako svjedoči Biblija i najstariji spisi,
već su u počecima Crkve sakupljali milostinju i njome upravljali za
uzdržavanje službenika koji su naviještali evanđelje te za
pomaganje siromašnijim Crkvama i kršćanima. Svjedoči o tome
Sveto pismo, povijest Crkve te njezino zakonodavstvo. Crkva je
uvijek posjedovala svijest da ona ima prirođeno pravo neovisno o
svjetovnim vlastima, stjecati,. posjedovati i otuđivati vremenita
dobra te upravljati njima prema posebnim zakonima kako bi
postigla svrhe koje su joj vlastite: uređenje bogoštovlja, briga za
uzdržavanje klera i drugih službenika, vršenje djela apostolata i
dobrotvornosti posebno prema siromasima (kan. 222, § 1-2; 1254, §
1-2). Zakonik iz 1983. godine posvetio je posebnu V. knjigu
vremenitim crkvenim dobrima. Izvori za kanone o crkvenim
vremenitim dobrima su CIC 1917. i dokumenti II. vatikanskoga
sabora; u ovome radu autor je naveo sve rlevantne izvore. Na
početku V. knjige crkveni je zakonodavac donio kan. 1254-1258 bez
posebnog naslova. U ovome radu autor je za tih pet kanona odredio
naslov: Crkvena vremenita dobra. (Temeljni kanoni 1254-1258).
Autor je obradio: prirođeno pravo Katoličke crkve na vremenita
dobra kako bi postigla vlastite svrhe (kan. 1254, § 1-2); subjekte
sposobne stjecati, posjedovati i otuđivati vremenita dobra i
upravljati njima (kan. 1255), vlasništvo vremenitih dobara (kan.
1256), pojam crkvenog dobra (kan. 1257, § 1-2) i značenje riječi
Crkva u V. knjizi Zakonika iz 1983. Autor je upozorio čitatelje daje
u ovome radu riječ o vremenitim dobrima crkvenih pravnih osoba,
nipošto o vremenitim dobrima vjernika pojedinaca (fizičkih osoba)
koji, prema pravnim propisima, upravljaju dobrima pravnih osoba.
Krajnje je vrijeme da zakoniti zastupnici i redoviti upravitelji
crkvenih pravnih osoba u dogovoru sa svojim ordinarijima i poglavarima(cama) upišu što prije pravne osobe u Ministarstvo
pravosuđa, uprave i lokalne samouprave Republike Hrvatske.In this work the author has treated, on the bases of sources and
literature, canons 1254-1258 of the Latin Church Canon Law Code;
in the Code from 1983 they are not nomotechnically placed under
special title .The author considers that they are fundamental canons
for the V book of the Code from 1983, "Temporal Church Goods".
The Church is both a discernible organism and a distinct
society (LG 8), it needs temporal goods too, and consequently it "can
by the law of its nature, independently of secular authorities, gain,
own and alienate temporal goods and control them in order to
achieve the purposes of its own." The author has explained, on the
basis of the Bible and other sources (CIC 1917, documents of the
Second Vatican Council) and various records, the immanent right of
the Church to collect alms and to defend its rights to temporal goods,
so that it could carry out in this world the role that the Lord, Jesus
Christ himself, assigned to it. The Church needs temporal goods for
the purposes of taking care of religious observance, caring for proper
support of the clergy and other officials, carrying out the work of
apostolate and charity, particularh/ for the poor. We are talking about
the temporal church goods that belong to the Universal Church, to
the Apostolic See and to other public corporations in the Church; we
are talking about the temporal goods of moral persons: the Catholic
Church and the Apostolic See (can. 113, § 1) as well as about the
temporal goods of public corporations in the Church. The Church is
a moral person through its divine foundation; other church
corporations are such either by the law itself or by the act of
foundation by the relevant church authority (church law). In our civil
legislature a corporation is formed: l.by the act of foundation and,
2. by registration with the proper authorities of government. The Church public corporations are the subjects: of the canon
law, internatlonal law, i.e. public civil law, they work according to
certain legal regulations; private corporations work according to
their own statutes. The Treaty betvveen the Apostolic See and the
Republic of Croatia recognizes the public Corporation of the Catholic
Church and ali its public corporations that possess such legal status
according to the regulations of the canon law. According to the Treaty
and the Agreement betvveen the Government of the Republic of
Croatia and Croatian Bishop Conference and according to the
Croatian legislature, Church public corporations have to be
registered and entered with the proper authorities of government, in
accordance with state regulations, so that they could participate in
legal transactions. The church public corporations can gain, own
and alienate temporal goods and control them according to the
canon law; in cases when the church legislator refers to civil laws,
then the civil laws become a part of canon order, they are canonized,
they have to be followed with identical effects as the canon law unless
they are against the divine law or unless the canon law orders
something else
