Motu proprio ?Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus? and ?Mitis et misericors Iesus?: the Pope reforms the procedures for declaration of marriage nullity
Vatican City, 8 September 2015 (VIS) - ?Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus? and ?Mitis et misericors Iesus?, on the reform of canonical processes for the declaration of nullity of marriage, in the Code of Canon Law (CIC) and the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (CCEO) are the two letters issued ?Motu proprio? by the Holy Father Francis, published today.
In the first, ?Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus?, the Pope writes that the Lord Jesus, ?clement Judge, Pastor of our souls, has entrusted to the Apostle Peter and his Successors the power of the keys to fulfil in the Church the works of justice and truth; this supreme and universal power to bind and dissolve here on earth affirms, corroborates and vindicates that of the Pastors of the particular Churches, by virtue of which they have the sacred right and, before the Lord, the duty to judge their own subjects".
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