Services

Legal solutionsfor the whole Church.

The breadth of our practice allows us to offer specialised legal counsel, across every branch of Canon Law, to individuals and ecclesiastical institutions anywhere in the world.

What we offer

Single Consultation

A legal answer or the drafting of a form-document for a specific question, with a response within a maximum of seven business days.

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Monthly Subscription

Ongoing canonical counsel for individuals and ecclesiastical institutions: parishes, dioceses, institutes of consecrated life and religious congregations.

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Legal Defence

Representation and defence of individuals and juridical persons connected to the Church at any canonical instance: penal, administrative processes, appeals and disciplinary cases before ecclesiastical tribunals, congregations or institutes of consecrated life and Roman dicasteries.

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Reports and Legal Opinions

Preparation of legal reports, canonical opinions and feasibility studies on any matter of the Law of the Church.

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Support to Tribunals

We provide specialised support to Judicial Vicariates and Ecclesiastical Tribunals in the handling of cases and files, collaborating in the functions proper to Advocates, Instructors, Defenders of the Bond, Promoters of Justice or any other function compatible with Canon Law.

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Canonical Compliance

Comprehensive advice on ecclesiastical regulatory compliance, risk prevention, internal investigations, protection of minors and vulnerable persons, drafting of protocols and adaptation to applicable canonical and civil regulations, creation, implementation and management of reporting channels.

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Canon marriage law

·Technical-legal support to Judicial Vicariates and Ecclesiastical Tribunals to relieve their procedural workload
·Comprehensive handling of marriage nullity cases and files
·Acting as Advocates, Instructors or Defenders of the Bond in canonical processes
·Efficient management of high case volumes in full compliance with the CIC, the CCEO and the motu proprios Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus and Mitis et Misericors Iesus

Canon criminal law

·Offences and penalties under the Code of Canon Law
·Disciplinary proceedings against clerics and laity
·Application of the reform of Book VI of the CIC
·Administrative penal law

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Canon administrative law

·Singular administrative acts and hierarchical recourse
·Recourse before dicasteries of the Holy See
·Suppression of parishes and transfer of pastors
·Liability of ecclesiastical administrators

Canon sacramental law

·Baptism, confirmation, Eucharist, penance, anointing and orders
·Sacramental registers and rectifications
·Validity and liceity of sacramental acts
·Marginal notes and sanations

Canon liturgical and ceremonial law

·Regulation of sacred places and times
·Liturgical and sacramental books
·Sacred art and liturgical music
·Pontifical, parish and institutional celebrations

Canon patrimonial and economic law

·Administration of the temporal goods of the Church
·Contracts and alienation of ecclesiastical property
·Pious foundations, legacies and donations
·Economic regime of dioceses, parishes and institutes

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Canon law of consecrated life

·Drafting and revision of Constitutions and Directory
·Admission, formation and separation of members
·General and provincial chapters and governance
·Mergers, divisions and patrimonial regime

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Canon procedural law

·Contentious and oral processes before ecclesiastical tribunals
·Marriage nullity cases
·Canonical penal process
·Execution of judgments and appeals

Canon constitutional and hierarchical law

·Rights and duties of the faithful
·Governance of the universal and particular Church
·Ecclesiastical offices and episcopal conferences
·Parishes, vicariates and deaneries

Canon law of the munus docendi

·Preaching, catechesis and teaching of the faith
·Catholic universities and schools
·Missionary activity and the new evangelisation
·Social communications media

Eastern canon law

·CCEO and the proper law of the Eastern Catholic Churches
·Marriage, sacraments and Eastern procedure
·Relations between the Latin and Eastern Churches
·Eastern dispensations and rescripts

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General canon law

·Sources of law and custom
·Physical and juridical persons in the Church
·Prescription and computation of time
·Interpretation and application of canonical laws

How to begin?

A single consultation to assess the matter, with no further commitment.

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