Codex Iuris Canonici (1983 Code of Canon Law)

The 1983 Code of Canon Law is the Roman Catholic Church's own current primary legal text, promulgated by Pope John Paul II, and this record holds it as a custodian source for exactly that reason: it is the Church's own statement of what it requires of itself, not an outside description. It is authoritative for the Church's current canonical requirements, checkable directly against the Latin text, and this record notes a specific documented change: the current code does not repeat the 1917 Code's requirement that women cover their heads in church, a real revision between the two codes rather than a continuous unchanging rule. Use it to establish current Catholic canon law on a named point; a claim about how a specific parish or diocese actually applies a canon in practice needs a source addressing that local application.