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Not Catholic, but canon law is for bishops to handle. You don't really have a reason to look at it unless you plan to join seminary or you want to have Internet debates.

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>>725297

I thought cannon law also laid out norms and sins and such… where do I find that catholic law.

>>725296

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>>725296

>Love God with all your heart

And

>Love thy neighbour as thyself

99% of canon law is administrative. Who can do certain administrative actions, what they can do, etc etc.

The only part you need to look into is your rights as a lay catholic, which us found in book 2, part 1.

Book 4 covers sacraments and it would be good to look over too, however not necessary.

You can find the whole code here

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_INDEX.HTM

>>725299

No canon law is more sort of bureaucratic stuff, what your looking for is moral theology.

There are a couple books on that but the patron of moral Theolgioans is St. Alphonsus Ligouri and his moral theology (considered the summa of moral theology) has been translated recently.

But for more general intro stuff I've heard great things about this

https://www.amazon.com/Morality-Catholic-Servais-P-Pinckaers/dp/1587315157

but a good catechism will cover most of it , I reocmmend this

https://sensusfidelium.us/bible-catechesis/the-catechism-explained-fr-francis-spirago/

if you scroll down you'll see overview of all the commandments and stuff

If you want something from St. Alphonsus he also has a useful summary in this book

https://www.goodcatholicbooks.org/books/alphonsusworks15.pdf

For actaully sort of practical stuff for what you do, an examination of conscience which is basically a list of sins to ask yourself if you've done is acutally probably the most useful.

https://archive.org/details/DevotionsForConfession/page/n17

This is a fantastic and very in depth book on it, you can find some shorter/less detailed stuff if you google for them.