Elements of Ecclesiastical Law - Complied With Reference to the Syllabus, the "Const; Apostolicae Seids" Of Pope Pius IX., The Council of the Vatican and the Latest Decisions of the Roman Congregations; Adapted Especially to the Discip... #263561

The common law of the Church — and we mean not merely its letter, but also its spirit — must therefore be, so to say, the mirror before which our peculiar mode of procedure must be placed, considered, and studied. This mirror alone fur nishes the correct key of the Instruction. Hence, throughout this volume, the peculiar trial as prescribed for this country by the Instruction of July 20, 1878, is everywhere and in all its details compared with the canonical trial as established by the sacred canons. The points of agreement as well as of divergence between the one and the other are carefully pointed out and explained.