The Principle of Salus Animarum as the Essence of the Adversarial System Under Canon Law
The Principle of Salus Animarum as the Essence of the Adversarial System Under Canon Law

Summary/Abstract: The principle of contradiction is a condition for the existence of an iudicium. For any trial, including canonical marriage nullity, one needs a statement expressing the will to exercise his right with the opposite claim, which also expresses the will to exercise the same right. At this time, when these two contradictory statements arise simultaneously before the church judge, a dispute arises, which then can turn into an iudicium.Such will to understand the canonical process as contradictional system is also expressed by Pope Francis in MIDI recalling the hitherto norms and reforming only those procedures that required it to move with the times. These changes are intended to remove from the content of the iudicium only what was devalued while the core of principle of contradiction remains inviolable. Pope Francis writes in MIDI: “..the zeal for the salvation of souls that, today like yesterday, always remains the supreme end of the Church’s institutions, rules, and law, compels the Bishop of Rome to promulgate this reform to all bishops”. Such justification underlies the Franciscan reform of the canonical process based on procedural principles.

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