Iustitia

Let us Walk Together

Varghese Koluthara — 2024-10-17

Madathikandathil, Bp George, CBCI: An Inter Ecclesial Assembly of Catholic Bishops of India, Dharmaram Canoncial Studies – 31, Bengaluru: Dharmaram Publications, 2023

Varghese Koluthara Jeswin Jose — 2024-10-17

Petrine Ministry, Collegiality and Synodality in the Light of the Communion Ecclesiology of the second Vatican Council

Paul Pallath — 2024-10-17

The Second Vatican Council reestablished the ecclesiology of communion and today it has become the official ecclesiology of the Catholic Church. In accordance with this ecclesiology the Catholic Church is a communion of particular Churches (dioceses or eparchies) and individual Churches (like patriarchal or major archiepiscopal Churches). The ecclesiology of communion has its repercussions on collegiality, synodality and primacy. Through episcopal consecration, a bishop becomes the head of a diocese or eparchy, the bishop of an individual Church and of the universal Church, as he is a member of the episcopal college. He thus exercises the office of bishop at three levels of the ecclesial communion: the particular Church, the individual Church and the universal Church. The Bishop of Rome, successor of St Peter, exercises the Petrine ministry in the universal Church as a service to the communion.

The Person and the Christian Faithful in the Church’s Universal Legislation

Aitor Jimenz Echave — 2024-10-17

The author describes and the personality of Christian faithful in the Church’s universal legislation. He invites us to focus on the human person, an issue which is at the centre of the Church's social thinking and her moral and legal teaching. Since the Second Vatican council, we can see how the Church has grown in its awareness of the concept of the human person, especially in the social-pastoral thinking of the Church. The current Code of Canon Law is the fruit of the Second Vatican Council, and reflects the anthropology that underlies it. The author explains that we must not forget that this intrinsic and essential union between the person (human being) and law is born of empirical reality. According to him, law is the fruit, to a large extent, of human life, of the human experience itself, as well as the hermeneutic principles of law and of the human person.

Assistance to the Catholic Married Couples by Women Religious: An Analysis based on CCEO and Amoris Laetitia

Leo — 2024-10-17

In the Catholic Church, marriage is a covenant that originates from God and is elevated to sacramental dignity by Christ. Hence, preparation is needed to ensure a valid celebration and attain perfection, i.e., family wholeness and holiness. Catholic married couples play a key role in the family because having completed their requirements for a valid and licit Catholic marriage, they become responsible for each other and for achieving a holy life in order for them to fulfil the goals and properties that married life presents. The purpose of this article is to explore the integration of the Church's juridical-pastoral concern for Catholic married couples through the service of women religious. The canonical norms which indirectly speak of the assistance given to Catholic married couples by the religious are can. 783 §3 and can. 415 §§1&3 of CCEO. By analysing these two canons in CCEO and the recent apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, we arrive at the conclusion that women religious have a participatory role as pastoral assistants to Catholic married couples.

Novelties in Vos Estis Lux Mundi 2023

Domy Thomas — 2024-10-17

Through this article, the author aims to point out the changes presented in Vos estis lux mundi 2023 compared with the previous version Vos estis lux mundi 2019. After a brief explanation of the purpose of the revision, the two titles of the new document and its modified articles are examined in comparison with the old document, and the changes and novelties in the new document are highlighted.

The Bishop of Rome by the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity

Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity — 2024-10-17

Declaration “Dignitas Infinita” on Human Dignity by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith

Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith — 2024-10-17