The Processus Brevior in Marriage Cases at the Flaminian Inter-diocesan Tribunal

This paper presents the experience of applying the processus brevior in matrimonial cases in a local tribunal, offering statistical data about these processes as well as some choices that were made in treating them. The advantages and problems that emerged are highlighted, and suggesting at its conclusion how to proceed with an evaluation of legislation in this regard after ten years of implementation.

Keywords: nullity of marriage; processus brevior; Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus.

The processus brevior in the Metropolitan Ecclesiastical Tribunal of Madrid. Ten years after Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus

This article studies the way in which the Metropolitan Ecclesiastical Tribunal of Madrid has understood and applied the processus brevior, which constitutes the most relevant modification introduced by the motu proprio Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus, whose promulgation and entry into force occurred ten years ago. The activity of the Metropolitan Tribunal of Madrid highlights the exceptional nature of the brief process, how the peculiarities of this procedural form have been applied and, above all, how the consistency of the evidentiary support of the facts set out in the application has been understood (which must also be indicated in the petition itself), so that a more precise instruction is not required.

Keywords: processus brevior; application of the procedural form; evidentiary support.

10 years of Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus in the Archdiocese of Santiago, Chile

Ten years after Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus, this article critically analyzes its application in the Archdiocese of Santiago. It highlights advances such as procedural
streamlining and gratuity, along with practical challenges in the brief process, the formation of judges, and the bishop’s effective role in the administration of justice.

Parole chiave: Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus; briefer process; tribunal of the archdiocese of Santiago de Chile.

The ratio essendi of the Crime: Toward a Reinterpretation of the Object of Criminal Protection from the Perspective of the Person

This article explores the “legal object” of crime, based on the idea that offenses protect “something” that belongs to “someone.” It contrasts two theories: subjective rights, ing crime as a violation of individual rights; and legal good, dominant in doctrine, defining crime as harm to public order. The latter marginalizes the victim.  The article proposes an integrative that re-centers the human person, especially in crimes with individual victims, where the core harm is to a specific right. This approach entails important implications: crime must be understood as an offense both to social order and to individual rights; in criminal proceedings,
the victim should transition from a mere witness to an active party with procedural standing, able to trigger jurisdiction and obtain effective judicial protection; in sentencing, the violation of the victim’s subjective right should meaningfully influence the outcome, guiding the sanction toward a restorative and rights-based function, consistent with the principles of restorative justice.

Keywords: crime; person; subjective rights; legal good; victim; canon law; criminal process; penalty; restorative justice; protection.

Pornography and matrimonial consent. The use of pornography today and its influence on canonical matrimonial consent. An

More than ten years after the publication of a doctoral study on the influence of pathological pornography usage on those who intend to contract marriage, this article offers an  on the issue with a summary exposition of the most recent scientific research on both the psychological and psychiatric levels and of the canonical doctrine on the subject. The article then offers a re of the recent Rotal decisions that have significantly addressed the issue, with some considerations from the evidentiary point of that can be drawn from the examination of the sentences analyzed.

Keywords: marriage; declaration of nullity; pornography; psychic incapacity; marital consent; behavioral addiction.