Morrisey F G
Health Prog. 1986 Sep;67(7):41-5.
The 1983 Code of Canon Law presents the basic legislation regarding juridic persons, which are entities brought into existence to assist in carrying out the Church's mission. Juridic persons by nature are perpetual and are not directly identified with their members. The private juridic person, a concept introduced in the 1983 code, operates collegially on behalf of its members or noncollegially on behalf of the things that constitute it. A ministry that receives private juridic status does not share as integrally in the Church's name. The latter therefore has more duties to fulfill in regard to observance of Church law, particularly that concerning the administration of temporal goods. The goods of a private juridic person, in contrast, are not ecclesiastical and thus are not subject to canon law. Instead, the private juridic persons' statutes provide norms for their administration. Canon law in establishing juridic persons enables the ministries they represent to last beyond the lives of those who initiated the ministries. Juridic persons offer both security and possibilities for concerted apostolic activity in the Church.
1983年《教会法典》提出了关于法人的基本立法，法人是为协助履行教会使命而设立的实体。法人本质上是永久性的，并不直接等同于其成员。1983年法典引入的私立法人概念，代表其成员以合议方式运作，或代表构成它的事物以非合议方式运作。获得私立法人地位的事工并不能完全以教会的名义行事。因此，教会在遵守教会法，特别是关于现世财物管理的法律方面，有更多义务要履行。相比之下，私立法人的财物并非教会财物，因此不受教会法约束。相反，私立法人的章程为其管理提供规范。教会法在设立法人时，使它们所代表的事工能够在发起这些事工的人的生命之后继续存在。法人为教会中协调一致的使徒活动提供了保障和可能性。
