Folia Canonica 2. (1999)
BOOK REVIEWS
380 BOOK REVIEWS One of the important novelties of CCEO is the importance given to ecumenism. The code has been inspired in part by the guidelines of Paul VI: on the Sister Churches, the almost full communion, on the respect due to the Orthodox hierarchs who have “the right to govern themselves according to their own disciplines.” Consequently, in the CCEO, an entire title (XVII) has been devoted to fostering unity of Christians (cc. 902-908). But the ecumenical outlook is not limited to these canons alone. This well-deserving work by Victor John Pospishil is indeed a welcome for everyday use and spiritual advancement of the clergy, consecrated religious and the entire people of God. We are happy that this expert presentation and accurate interpretation of the Eastern Catholic Church Law is available to the English- speaking christifideles. George Gallaro II diritto canonico orientale neliordinamento ecclesiale (Studi Giuridici 34), K. Bharanikulangara (ed.), LEV, Città del Vaticano 1995, 275 pp. New comers to Eastern Canon Law as well as specialists in the field will certainly welcome this general survey of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churehes (CCEO). The contributors are all scholars on church law. B., a young canonist from Kerala, has edited this collection of essays. The book comprises twelve essays introduced with a concise presentation (7—10) by the editor himself. Carl Fürst of the Institut für Kirchenrecht in Freiburg, with his essay “Interdependence of the Latin and Eastern Canon Law” (13-33), introduces the various topics of the two codes. He offers some noteworthy observations on the characteristics of the new legislation of the Catholic Church, as well as the place reserved to the CCEO. Ivan Zuzek of the Pontifical Oriental Institute presents the fundamental notions of the common and particular laws in the CCEO in his study “Particular Law in the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches” (34-48). Beginning with the notion of subsidiarity in church governance — one of the guiding principles of the revision of both codes — he shows how this principle determines one of the main characteristics of the CCEO. Referring to canon 178, Z. comments that the principle of subsidiarity in no way compromises the unity of the Church, in as much as, by definition, the principle must be applied according to the norm of the common law. He then ends his essay by listing the places and the contexts in which the “particular law” appears in the CCEO.
