The first issue of FORUM, A Review of Canon Law and Jurisprudence, for the current year [Vol. 17(2006)1] is out and includes the usual Documentation and Decisions by the local Maltese Tribunals and the Roman Rota. Furthermore the issue also contains the following articles:
AGOSTINO Card. VALLINI, La funzione pastorale del Supremo Tribunale della Segnatura Apostolica.This is the text of a conference that was given in Valletta, Malta, by the Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Segnatura Apostolica, on Friday, 17th February 2006, on the occasion of the presentation of Diploma certificates to candidates who successfully followed the “Diploma Course of Studies in Canonical Marriage Cases, Jurisprudence and Procedure”.
ROLAND JACQUES, O.M.I., The rights and obligations of the faithfuyl: some historical considerations. This is the slightly adapted text of a seminar given at the 2004 Canadian Canon Law Society Convention in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Roland Jacques, O.M.I., L.Th., L.Ph. (Rome, Greg), L.D.C. (Strasbourg), J.C.L. (Paris), L.L.L.C.E. (Vietnamese), D.E.A. (Far Eastern Studies) (Paris, Langues’O), J.C.D. (Paris, Inst. Cath.), Ph.D. (Law), H.D.R. (Paris XI Sud) is Dean of the Faculty of Canon Law, St Paul University, Ottawa.
PIERRE ALLARD, S.M., S.Th.D., Ph.D., J.C.D., An Essay in Law and History. A Sixteenth Century Man of Law Thomas More. Professor of canon law and theology at the Ecclesial faculties of Theology and Philosophy of the Dominican University College, Ottawa
ANNE ASSELIN, Lay Ecclesial Ministers in the Present Parish Structure and Some Suggestions for the Future, Revised text of a conference presented at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Convention of the Canadian Canon Law Society, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 26-29 September 2005. Dr Anne Asselin JCD is Professor of Canon Law, at the Faculty of Canon Law, St Paul’s University, Ottawa.
The second issue for 2006, is in preparation. Besides the Documentation and Jurisprudence sections, it will include and article by Zenon Card. Grocholewski, Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, on “The Foundations of the Right of Defense”; another by Héctor Franceschi on “The ‘bonum prolis’ in matrimonial life and the canonical consequences in case of separation or nullity of marriage”, as well as a follow up article by Pierre Allard S.M., on “Marriage, Family and Education. Thomas More and Parental Duties(c. 1136)”. |
