Folia Theologica et Canonica 11. 33/25 (2022)
Recensions
RECENSIONS 251 (pp. 46—49). Nevertheless, we must also mention the Apostolic Constitutions concerning the Roman Curia (i.e. Immensa Aeterni Dei [1588]), Sapienti Consilio [1908], Regimini Ecclesiae Universae [1967], Pastor Bonus [1988], Praedicate Evangelium [2022]) and the so called ‘Regolamenti’ (i.e. Ordo Servandus in Sacris Congregationibus, Tribunalibus, Officiis Romanae Curiae; Regolamento Generale della Curia Romana [1968]; Regolamento Generale della Curia Romana [1999]). After presenting the Lex de Procedura Administrativa, he moves on to summarizing the norms of the CIC (1917), the CIC and the CCEO. While outlining the processes, he distinguishes between minor and major cases, and between judicial and extrajudicial cases (pp. 74- 75). He places particular emphasis on the establishment of some of the principles of process: diligence and prudence, cooperation and coordination, expediency and efficiency, pastoralism, and procedural fairness (pp. 76-80). The third chapter deals with the initiation phase of the process (pp. 81-112). In this context, it analyzes CIC Canon 57, comparing the promulgated text with those drafted texts which were formulated during the codification process, namely II, III, IV, V, and VI (pp. 84-87), as well as the unenacted 1980 and 1982 versions of the Administrativae Potestatis motu proprio (pp. 88-89). Similarly, he discusses the CCEO Canon 1518, also examining the final promulgated text and its earlier versions of 1980 and 1986 (pp. 90-91). It deals specifically with the ‘ex officio’ or ‘ad instantiam’ mode of initiation (pp. 92- 94); the competent authority and its jurisdiction; the right of petition (including its requirements as to person, content and form) [pp. 98-106]; the protection of rights and liability for damages (pp. 107-112). The fourth chapter discusses the evidentiary phase of the administrative process, based on CIC Cann. 50, 695, 697, and 1745 (again examining the wording of the current canons up to Schema I-VI); comparing CCEO Can. 1517 §§ 1-2 (pp. 113— 156). In the fifth chapter, the concluding section is explained and commented on in a similar way (pp. 157-224). Jonas Achacoso, who is currently the Deputy Vicar General of the Diocese of Brooklyn, has presented a precise and comprehensive guide by publishing this volume in Spanish. The method he uses to combine the system of general and specific administrative acts with the administrative activity of the Roman Curia, and in the light of this to examine the rules applying to the various types of administrative processes and the process itself, is quite unique. In this way it puts administrative acts and processes into a new perspective. Thus, this volume is an indispensable contribution to establishing the applicability of administrative processes, which are increasingly becoming a widespread feature of canonical processes, and to promoting their consistent and effective implementation. Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi, O.Praem.
