|
To work for the proper implementation of canon law is to play an extraordinarily constructive role in continuing the redemptive mission of Christ. Pope John Paul II |
|
2 apr 2021 |
|
Masterpage 1917 Code |
|
|
Research links
|
Resources for studying the 1917 Code in English, here.
Pont. Commission for the Codification of Canon Law, here. |
|
Overview
|
The Pontifical Commission for the Codification of Canon Law (1904-1917)
Pietro Cdl. Gasparri was the driving intellect behind the Catholic Church's first codification of canon law but one should not forget the other members of the papal commission that aided him. Below are "the Men behind the Man behind the Code of Canon Law."
|
|
|
All full members of the commission were Cardinal Fathers, with a young canonist, the future Pope Pius XII, serving as an assistant. Their academic credentials (where I could locate them) were impressive, and not a few had also made their mark outside of canonistics. Most of the early members were Italian, of course, though Spain (Vives y Tuto and Merry del Val y Zulueta), Germany (Steinhuber), Holland (van Rossum) and France (Matthieu) were represented. Several (Martinelli, Satolli, Cavvichioni, Vives y Tuto, and Merry del Val) had significant exposures to Anglo-American common law. Some died († ) before the Pio-Benedictine Code was promulgated. To these were added various consulters, some of whom were later promoted to the Commission itself. Several of the men listed here were considered "papabile" in their time. See my Notes on the Canonist's Conclave of 1922.
|
|
|
Commission President
Commission Charter Members soon named to Executive Council
Other Commission Charter Members
Consulters and others promoted to Commission over time
Other original Consulters to the Commission
Others named Consulters to the Commission over time
Others named to or contributing to Commission work over time included: P. Bastien, C. Beccari, F. Do Rego Maia, E. Estaban, Joachim a S. Simone Stock, J. Laurentius, S. Many, A. Mariani, R. Maribi, P. Pacelli, F. Parillo, A. Rolli, J. Rossi, C. Santucci, I. Serédi, A. Sincero, M. Sleutjes, J. Sole, F. Spolverini, D. Taccone-Gallucci, A. Verde, P. Vidal. (See Stickler, Historia Iuris, 378). As well, G. Osterle, J. Serédi.
Read more about the codification process:
Every man has his special mission in life. Mine was the codification of Canon Law and the support of Benedict during the [First World] War. These two tasks are now completed. Cdl. Gasparri on 22 Jan. 1922.
His Eminence did not mention his: 1) authoring of De Matrimonio in 2 vols., the most influential treatise on marriage in since Gratian; 2) his negotiation of the Lateran Treaty seven years later, and 3) his editing of 7 out of 9 volumes of the 1917 Code's Fontes. Most men would be proud to have accomplished any one of these tasks.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Notes |
Most photos above are taken from Salvador Miranda's Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, used with permission, and are linked to biographical sketches thereon.
See also Reginald Fellows, "The New Code of Roman Canon Law", Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law, 3rd Ser., Vol. 1, No. 3 (1919) 239-244.
|
| Staging | As well, G. Osterle, J. Serédi (Wrenn, Jurist 41: 301) =? |
