News from the Church
Law Society
REVIEW 27
1/2004
From the Church
Law Society
Presentation of Austrian
Collection on Present Czech State Ecclesiastical
Law in Prague
On Wednesday,
April 14, 2004 in late afternoon, in the presentation room of the Austrian
Culture Forum in Jugmannovo
náměstí in Prague, a new book was presented
to the Czech general public: under title Recht und Religion in Mittel- und Osteuropa, Band 2 – Tschechien. It was the second
volume of a widely understood encyclopaedia on legal adjustment of State-Churches
relations of countries freed from Communism after 1989. The Culture Councillor of the Austrian
Embassy in Prague and the Austrian
Culture Forum director, Mr Walter Persché, at six p.m. festively
opened the event and presented
both the coordinators of the volume – Dr. iur. Wolfgang
Wieshaider of the Vienna University School of Law,
and Doc. JUDr. Jiří Rajmund
Tretera of the Charles University School of Law. They
remarked on the work of all
fifteen co-authors: two Austrian and
thirteen Czech. Most of them were
present at the event.
The main speech
was given by Rev. ICDr. JUDr. Stanislav
Přibyl Ph.D. He outlined the meaning
and essence of the work
as a whole as well as the specific parts.
In this issue of our Review
there is the possibility to see the speech
in a slightly edited print-version.
Lively discusion of participants holding a glass of wine
closed the event. WUV – Universitätsverlag Publishing House representative
in Vienna started selling the book.
The book contains
176 pages of concise text. It also includes German
translation f legislative texts related to state ecclesiastical law of the
Czech Republic and detailed summary in English.
At the end
follows the list of authors: Ing. Petr Balažík, Rev. Mgr. Miroslav Brož,
Rev. Ing. Miloslav Fiala OPraem,
Lieutenant-Colonel Mons. Tomáš Holub, JUDr. Záboj Horák Ph.D.,
Prof. PhDr. Emilia Hrabovec,
JUDr. Štěpán Hůlka, Mgr. Stanislav Hykyš, Doc. JUDr.
Vladimír Kindl, Ing. Stanislav Kosík, Rev. ICDr. JUDr. Stanislav Přibyl Ph.D.,
JUDr. Pavel Rameš, Rev. Doc. JUDr. Jiří Rajmund Tretera OP, Dr. iur. Wolfgang Wieshaider and JUDr. Pavel Zeman.
The book was
shielded by workers of the Center for Law and Religion of the University of Vienna School
of Law, led by Prof. Dr. iur. Richard Potz, and officer at
the section of churches at
the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science
and Culture, Prof. Dr. theol. Karl Schwarz.
You can buy
it at Oliva Bookstore, Prague 1-Staré Město,
Jilská 7, Linde Bookstore, Prague 1, Opletalova 35, and Jiří
Švanderlík Bookstore,
Charles University School of
Law.
General Meeting of the Church Law
Society
Proceeded regularly on May 12, 2004, at 4:30 p.m., in the Reading Room of
the Dominican Priory of Prague, Husova 8. Annual Report on Activity of the Church
Law Society was given out on spot, additional issues are at hand in the
archive in the Working Room of the
Society. Current compound of the management of the Society is published on our website.
Paper of the
Director of the Institute for State-Churches Relations, Bratislava
Just after the
GM, at 6 p.m. in the Priory
Reading Room there was held
the 45th evening in the range of
papers and discussions in Effect of Law on Common
Society and Church. Mgr.
Michaela Moravčíková gave
a paper on State and Church in Present
Slovakia. High interest of participants
and the expert speech of the
director caused the discussions in the Reading Room
as well as with a glas of wine
in the provincialate went on until late
night.
Church Law Review
won the Prize
of Karlsbader Juristentage
On June 11, 2004 Church Law Review
was awarded the Prestigious Prize of the
Society of German, Czech and Slovak
Lawyers Karlsbader Juristentage as the best of the
juristic periodicals published in the Czech Republic or in the Slovak
Republic for the last year. 24 juristic
periodicals from both the states
participated in the competition.
Congratulations
On April
1, 2004, our member, Doc.
ICLic. ThDr. Ján Duda, judicial vicar of the Spiš Diocese,
was cum laude proclaimed a professor of Comenius University in
Bratislava.
On April
24, 2004, a significant life
jubilee, 75th birthday, came to a honorary member of our
Society, Prof. Dr. iur. Heiner
Marré from Gladbeck, professor at University of Bochum, emerit head of the
Legal Department of the Episcopate Essen, worldwide known as a key author of
scientific works on present financing of churches in Germany and other
European countries. For our Society gave a paper during the
international conference 1st
Prague Discussions on Relations of State
and Church at the Charles University School of Law
on September 6, 1996.
On April
24, 2004, in the church of St Theresa of
Lisieux in Prague
8-Kobylisy, a marriage was entered into by Lenka Konečná and Mgr. Martin Vaňáč, director of the
Institute for Ecumenical Studies
in Prague and a long-term member of our Society.
On May 28, 2004, Mgr.
Kamila Bubelová, Assistant
at the University of Olomouc, member of our Society, obtained degree of Ph.D., in Roman law, at the
Masaryk University in Brno.
On June 15, 2004, Martin
Hladký, the member of our Society from Piešťany (Slovakia), after successfully study in politics at the
University of Trnava (Slovakia),
obtained the Master degree.
On June 26, 2004, in the church of
St. Wenceslas in Prague-Bohnice,
a marriage will be entered into
by Mgr. Gabriela Šenková and JUDr. Adam Bašný, member of the Executive
Board of our Society.
Decease
We regretted to hear on May 27, 2004, in a hospital-home in Červený Kostelec, Ing. Dagmar Kováčová deceased after a lengthy illness, aged 64. She was
a founding member of our Society and our close
co-worker. It was before all
her effort that the work of
Academic Weeks continued after the decease of
a Dominican terciary and priest Rev.
Jaroslav Knittl in 1994, who
from the order received the work and
kept on steadily going in Nové Město nad Metují. On contrary,
the work gained a great spread and popularity.
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Short News
Essener Gespräche über Staat und
Kirche (39)
March 13-16, 2004 in Mülheim an der Ruhr as every year this
time the said conference took place. 114 experts of state
ecclesiastical law from Germany, Austria,
Belgium, Hungary, Greece and the
Czech Republic were present. On both the days
the conference activities, raging discussions inclusive, were moderated by Prof. Dr. iur. Christian Starck from Göttingen. On Monday, March 15, 2004 in the morning, Prof. Dr. Karl
Gabriel of University of
Münster gave a paper on Religionen und ihre Stellung
zum Staat – eine soziologische Bestandsaufnahme.
On Monday,
March 15, 2004 in the afternoon, Prof. Dr.h.c.mult. Eberhard
Jüngel DD. of
University of Tübingen gave a paper on Religionen, Zivilreligionen
und christlicher Glaube – in einer pluralistischen Gesellschaft. On
Tuesday, March 16, 2004 a paper was given
by Prof. Dr. iur. Paul Kirchhof
of University of
Heidelberg on Die Freiheit der Religionen
und ihr unterschiedlicher
Beitrag zu einem freien Gemeinwesen.
Scientific conference on Incorporated Parishes
College of Catholic
Theology, Charles University, Prague, held a scientific conference on March 16, 2004. Here a paper was
given by Prof. JUDr. ThDr.
Miroslav Zedníček on subject of
“Relation of Religious Associations and Parishes“, Doc. ICLic. JUDr. Antonín I. Hrdina on subject
of “Incorporation in
CIC/1917 and CIC/1983“ and ICDr. ThDr. Jiří
Svoboda on subject of “The Issue of
Duration of Incorporation of a Parish de lege lata“.
Memorial Mass on Vyšehrad
On Saturday,
March 20, 2004, at 9.30
a.m. a memorial mass for priest and religious
victims of Nazism and Communism
was served in the chapter dome of Vyšehrad; followed by honoring the deceased
at the memorial
in Vyšehrad Cemetary (music:
The Prague Castle Guard). Regarding the members
of our Society, among the present
were doc. J. R. Tretera,
JUDr. J. Kotous, doc. A. I. Hrdina, dr. M. Černý,
JUDr. R. Makarius, RNDr. F. Skřivánek.
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