Pope Benedict XVI speech for the inauguration of the Judicial Tribunal of the Rota
(January 29, 2009) In our meeting today I would like to draw the attention of legal practitioners on the need to treat the cases with the necessary depth required by the ministry with truth and love which is necessary for the Roman Rota, said Pope Benedict XVI at the Annual inaugural of the Roman Rota, on Thursday, 29th of January in Rome. The Tribunal of the Rota Romana or the Sacred Roman Rota is the highest appellate tribunal of the Latin Rite and several of the Eastern Catholic Churches and is the second highest ecclesiastical court constituted by the Holy See. The Catholic Church has a complete legal system, which is the oldest and one of the most advanced legal systems still in use today. The court is named Rota (wheel) because the judges, called auditors, originally met in a round room to hear cases. Speaking of psychiatric and psychological evaluations, the Holy Father said that it is worth making the first line of demarcation between "an emotional maturity that would be the end of human development", and "the maturity which is the minimum point of departure for the validity marriage.” The Pope then added that “On this occasion, however, I would also reconsider the issue activity-to marry, under canon 1095, in the light of the relationship between the human person and the marriage and remember some basic principles should enlighten practitioners. It is necessary first to discover positive capacity in principle that every human person has to marry by virtue of its very nature of man or woman. We run the risk of falling into an anthropological pessimism that, in light of today's cultural situation, deemed almost impossible to get married. In this sense, the capacity should be related to what is essentially a marriage, that is, "the intimate communion of life and conjugal love, founded by the Creator and structured with proper laws" and, in particular with the obligations that are inherent in it, to be taken by the spouses, he said.
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