Folia Canonica 1. (1998)
STUDIES - Astrid Kaptijn: Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium - Important Questions
178 ASTRID KAPTIJN these three concepts before examining their meaning in the actual CCEO. A lecture of comparison about the «Lex Ecclesiae Fundamentalis and the two Codes», was delivered by Ivan ZUZEK, emeritus professor of the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, who, as Secretary of the Commission for the revision of the Code of Eastern Canon Law, was the right person to present to the participants his knowledge about the subject. The absence in the CCEO of a text equivalent to c. 96 of the Codex Iuris Canonici (CIC) provoked some discussion between the participants and professor Zuzek. Some important themes of the CCEO were treated by four other speakers. Cyril VASIL’, professor at the Pontifical Oriental Institute, spoke about «Patriarch and Synodality». By comparing the former and the actual law, it was made clear what are the differences for example in name, composition of the Synod of Bishops of the Patriarchal Church and the powers of the Patriarch and the Synod. A comparison between the Synod of Bishops of the Patriarchal Church and the latin Episcopal Conferences as well as some observations about synodality as participation in the supreme authority in the Church, concluded his lecture. The interesting problem of «The Sacrament of Marriage in the two Codes» has been presented by Dimitri SALACHAS, professor in eastern canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian and Angelicum Universities, and at the Pontifical Oriental Institute, and who has already dedicated a monograph to this subject. The lecture treated almost all aspects of marriage with special attention to the main differences between the Codes such as for exaple the concept of marriage, the marriage ratum, non consummatum, the impediments of abduction, spiritual relationship, the problem of conditional marriage and marriage by proxy before treating the celebration of marriage and the role of the minister of the sacrament. Inevitably, there was a tendancy during the discussion to present problematic concrete marriage cases. Unfortunately, there was not enough time to discuss them, but this manifests the needs in the tribunals of competent officials in this matter. Another important theme of the CCEO is the enrollment of each baptised person in a Church sui iuris. This theme was the object of a lecture by Astrid KAPTIJN, associate professor at the Faculty of Canon Law in Paris. The canons of the CCEO on enrollment were presented in the context of their origin, which highlighted the aspects that occupied
