Published: 2014-04-15

Defender of the bond the guarantor of the truth and justice – reflections based on the speech of Pope Francis to the members of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, November 8, 2013

Urszula Nowicka
Ius Matrimoniale
Section: Rozprawy i artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/im.2014.25.2.02

Abstract

Pope Francis, speaking on November 8, 2013 to the members of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, returned to the issue reiterated for years – namely to emphasise the role of the defender of the bond in a process. Based on this speech many important issues appear, such as a pastoral good of parties and bound up with it the principle of truth, the role of the defender of the bond in safeguard of this truth and reciprocal relationship between the defender and a judge. It shows that evangelistic activity of the Church is indissolubly connected with the ecclesial administration of justice and that in ecclesiastical courts it is necessary to always have an icon of the Good Shepherd before eyes, which first of all is a righteous Shepherd.

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defender of the bond

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Nowicka, U. (2014). Defender of the bond the guarantor of the truth and justice – reflections based on the speech of Pope Francis to the members of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, November 8, 2013. Ius Matrimoniale, 25(2), 31–42. https://doi.org/10.21697/im.2014.25.2.02

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