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

Date: 1917

## The fact

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. Confession-adjacent files are a personal-data path in a church court system.

## Context

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

[Thomas Aquinas](/people/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.

## Evidence and sources

Official edition, Holy See, or archive page and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Code of Canon Law (Holy See index) (https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/cic_index_en.html; Holy See / vatican.va).

## Significance

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

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [personal-data-protection](/drivers/personal-data-protection). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is personal-data-protection. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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.

## People

- Thomas Aquinas: https://factrail.ai/people/thomas-aquinas

## Drivers

- Personal-Data Protection: https://factrail.ai/drivers/personal-data-protection

## Sources

- https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/cic_index_en.html
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Thomas-Aquinas

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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