TITLE 23

The Temporal Goods of the Church

Canon 1007

In looking after the spiritual well-being of people, the Church

needs and uses temporal goods, inasmuch as its proper mission

demands it; therefore it has an innate right of acquiring, possessing, administering and alienating those temporal goods that

are necessary to pursue its proper ends, especially for divine

worship, works of the apostolate and of charity and fitting

support of ministers.