https://doi.org/10.21697/im.2023.34.2.07
The presented study is a commentary on the unpublished judgment of c. Emanuele Saturnino da Costa Gomes of March 1, 2022. The author discussed in detail the structure of the judgment in question: the course of the case, legal and factual reasons. The presen- ted judgment is an example of the increasingly common practice in Poland of appealing against judgments in the first instance directly to the Tribunal of the Roman Rota. This phenomenon, unprecedented on such a scale, may raise the question of the ratio legis of can. 1444 § 1 n. 1 CIC/83 in the context of can. 1438 n. 1-2 CIC/83, that is, the order of the degrees of appeal. Without denying the right of the faithful to consider their cases in the Holy See, and even transfer them there at every stage of the proceedings and at every stage of the dispute, it should be emphasized that the normal appellate tribunal for suffragal dioceses is the metropolitan tribunal, and for the metropolitan tribunal another diocesan court, which approved by the Holy See. Therefore, appealing against the judgments of the first instance directly to the Tribunal of the Roman Rota seems to be an extraordinary procedure, demanding some special reasons. Reducing the papal tribunal to the role of an ordinary court of second instance may raise doubts of a systemic nature.
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