Vatican City, Jan 22, 2008 / 09:25 am
The Vatican held a press conference today to present the upcoming congress theme: “Canon Law in the Life of the Church, research and perspectives in the context of recent Pontifical Magisterium.”
Archbishop Francesco Coccopalmerio and Msgr. Juan Ignacio Arrieta, respectively president and secretary of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, participated in the press conference regarding the congress, organized to mark the 25th anniversary of the Code of Canon Law.
Msgr. Arrieta noted that the goal of the congress is “to undertake a purposeful study ... into the progress of the application of the Code, and of all the other norms that the various offices of the Roman Curia and individual legislators have produced over the last 25 years.”
“Twenty-five years ago, the long process of revising the 1917 Code of Canon Law came to an end,” said Archbishop Coccopalmerio, explaining how the revision “had been announced by Pope John XXIII on the same day he proclaimed the celebration of Vatican Council II” and how it re-examined “the central corpus of the Church's legislative code in accordance with doctrinal aspects contained in the conciliar documents.”