Canon Law Relationship Chart: "Show your work"
Remember when you were in junior high, or middle school, and the math teacher gave you a problem to solve: 5+X=8. Any first grade graduate could look at this and know it is three, but if you answer was "3", you got the question wrong with a nasty little note that said "Show work". This chart is a lot like that "Show work" comment. To know that you understand the foundations of that answer, you need to know how the whole thing works. In the olden days - before computers, like 1978, we used canon law relationship charts , like this one to calculate how one person was related to one and another person. Today, just like in algebra, you push a button and you get your answer. But how do you know that the computer program got to that answer? It is important that even IF you have a computer, and who doesn't that you understand how this chart works. So let's agree on two basic premises: 1) The chart we are using was written out in a c...