The Roman Curia as It Now Exists Author:Michael Martin Subtitle: An Account of Its Departments: Sacred Congregations, Tribunals, Offices; Competence of Each; Mode of Procedure; How to Hold Communication With: the Latest Legislation General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1913 Original Publisher: Benziger Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Catholic Religion / Christian... more »ity / Denominations Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II The Sacred Congregation On The Discipline Of The Sacraments: The Sacred CongreGation Of The Council: The Sacred ConGregation For The Affairs Of Religious In the introduction to this commentary it was pointed out that the changes brought about by the Apostolic Constitution, Sapienti consilio, were of such practical importance for priests and clerics in general, that the professors in our seminaries would have to take cognizance of them in their course of Canon Law, and that certain changes would be required in our textbooks for seminarists. This applies in particular to the chapters dealing with the sphere of operations and jurisdiction assigned to each of the Roman Congregations and Tribunals; likewise to the mode of procedure when business is to be transacted with one or other of the various departments of the Holy See. It would not only cause considerable delay in disposing of difficult questions and contentions if the matter were addressed to a Tribunal not competent to dealwith it, but the acta might in some cases be altogether ignored or lost sight of, to the great detriment of the appellants. We have been so long accustomed to deal with only one Congregation, that of the Propaganda, that there is a special difficulty for us and for those countries like the United States, which have now been remove...« less