De CONCORDIA INTER CODICES

TOWARDS A HARMONIZATION OF THE EASTERN AND LATIN CODES

Authors

  • Jobe Abbass Saint Paul University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Keywords:

Ascription, Transfer, Baptism Register, Marriage

Abstract

In his apostolic letter, De concordia inter Codices, Pope Francis expressed his constant solicitude for a concordance between the two Codes of the Catholic Church. By way of the letter‘s Preamble and eleven articles, His Holiness made changes to a number of Latin norms thereby effecting a greater harmony between the Latin and Eastern Codes. Despite the pope‘s concern for an appropriate degree of harmony between the Codes, he also acknowledged that the Codes have their own peculiarities which make them mutually independent. As a result, while De concordia inter Codices harmonizes a number of parallel norms of the Codes, others remain disharmonious as the motu proprio took into consideration the different traditions behind the two separate and distinct Codes of the universal Church.

Author Biography

Jobe Abbass, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

A Maronite Catholic, Fr. Jobe ABBASS, was born in Sydney, NS, on 27 January 1952. Member of the Conventual Franciscans' Immaculate Conception Province (USA), was ordained to the priesthood in Albany, NY on 25 May 1985. University studies: Carleton University, Ottawa, ON (B.A., 1972); Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS (LL.B., 1975); St. Anthony-on-Hudson Theologate, Rensselaer, NY (M.Div., 1985); Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome (Licentiate, 1989 and Doctorate in Canon Law, 1992). Admitted to the Bar of NS on 14 November 1975 and practised as sole practitioner in Sydney, NS, 1975-1979. Attorney-at-law in the State of New York, was admitted to the New York Bar on 24 January, 1984. From 1992-2004, professor (ordinarius from 1998) on the faculty of canon law, PIO, Rome. From 2004- present, full tenured professor on the faculty of canon law, of St. Paul University, Ottawa, Canada and visiting professor on the faculties of canon law of the PIO, Rome.
This article was a conference given at the Joint Canon Law Convention of the Canadian Canon Law Society and the Canon Law Society of America in Buffalo, N.Y. from October 11-14, 2010.

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Published

2020-08-02

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2017): Iustitia: Dharmaram Journal of Canon Law

Section

Articles