Paper's abstract

Patrick Valdrini, The Canonical Trial
The Code of canon law of the catholic church contains a set of rules concerning the canonical trial. Two essential aspects can be highlighted. In the first place, the position, the role and the function of conciliation reveal the pathological character of the conflicts in the Church, which have to be solved by the access to a court provided, however, an express necessity to implement every mean in order that justice be dispensed. And next the judicial organisation itself is the result of positions taken by canon law when receiving Roman procedural elements. The latter shows an organisation whose finality is the direct satisfaction of the plaintiffs demands more than the direct defence of the legislative entirety.

Key Words : canon, trial, church, religion
t. 39, 1994 : p. 139-144

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