I.   Introductory provisions

No law may exist, be written or enforced as Ecclesiastical Law or any other law description unless it conforms to the body of Canon laws preceding this Canon known as Astrum Iuris Divini Canonum in accordance with Pactum De Singularis Caelum.

Ecclesiastical Law is the body of statutes and ordinances of an ecclesiastical entity issued by proper authority in accordance with these canons for the moderation of a religious organization and its members. As valid Ecclesiastical Law is in accordance with these Canons, the word canon is equivalent to describing valid Ecclesiastical Law.

Any law claiming to be Canon or Ecclesiastical presently in force which is contrary to the prescript of these Canons is therefore reprobate, suppressed and not permitted to be revived.

As Ecclesiastical Law ultimately refers to rules created by men and women, not natural or divine, all valid Ecclesiastical Law may be said to be Positive Law and derived from Positive Law. Therefore, A Positive Law cannot abrogate, suspend, nor change a Natural Law. Nor is it possible for a Positive Law or Natural Law to abrogate, suspend or change a Divine Law.

To the extent that valid Ecclesiastical Law is in accord with Natural Law and Divine Law, then such agreement recognizes certain Divine Law and Natural Law to be in harmony with valid Ecclesiastical Law. However, this is an alignment and not an abrogation, change or suspension of a Natural Law or Divine Law by Positive Law.

An Ecclesiastical Law is established and takes force when it is promulgated in accordance with these Canons.

All Ecclesiastical Law may be defined by six (6) Foundations including: Supernatural, Sacred, Faith, Institution, Instruction and Rites & Procedures.

When anyone references, writes or speaks of Ecclesiastical Law it shall mean these Canons and no other.