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The 1917 Codex Iuris Canonici prints a Thomist-scholastic moral grid for internal forum files

The 1917 Code, a completed papal legal instrument, organises sins, censures, and the internal forum in a scholastic key long taught from the Summa. In the causal graph this event weakens the driver Personal-Data Protection.

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The 1917 Code, a completed papal legal instrument, organises sins, censures, and the internal forum in a scholastic key long taught from the Summa. Aquinas did not draft 1917 canons.

Context

Seal of confession is a confidentiality rule and also a data store.

Thomas Aquinas is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

A 1917 moral-legal code is a personal-file architecture, not a thirteenth-century diary.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Thomas Aquinas

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.2 · verified

    Named Dominican master as heading of later editions and papal acts. Printers, popes, and editors publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactThe 1917 Codex Iuris Canonici prints a Thomist-scholastic moral grid for internal forum files
    2. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 27 May 1917 · verified

    A 1917 moral-legal code is a personal-file architecture, not a thirteenth-century diary.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Code of Canon Law (Holy See index)Holy See / vatican.va · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Saint Thomas AquinasEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorThomas Aquinas
  2. contributed toFactThe 1917 Codex Iuris Canonici prints a Thomist-scholastic moral grid for internal forum files
  3. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

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Factrail. (2026). The 1917 Codex Iuris Canonici prints a Thomist-scholastic moral grid for internal forum files. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/aq-personal-confession-files

https://factrail.ai/facts/aq-personal-confession-files

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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