From the Church Law Society

 

 

Congratulations to Members of the Church Law Society

 

Mgr. Hana Molíková and Josef Klíma married on 27 June 2009 in a wedding ceremony in the Roman Catholic chapel of the Holy Trinity in the Vranov nad Dyjí Chateau.

 

As of 1 July 2009, ICLic. Michal Podzimek, Th.D., a priest of the Litoměřice Diocese, was appointed the chaplain for university students, intellectuals and cultural-educational activities in the city of Liberec (in the Roman Catholic parishes in the city territory). We noted this information from the official publication Acta curiæ Episcopalis Litomericensis No. 06/2009, point 11 b.

 

As of 1 July 2009, the recently ordained Roman Catholic priest Mag. theol. Stanislav Brožka was appointed the parish vicar in Tábor and excurrendo the administrator of the parishes in Miličín a Neustupov in the České Budějovice Diocese.

 

Obituaries

Last year we lost JUDr. Václav Šolle, CSc., a legal historian who was one of the great supporters of the Church Law Society, particularly at its beginnings in 1995 when he became a member. Thanks to his activities we were able to also enjoy the participation of his brother, PhDr. Miloš Šolle, a famous archeologist, at many of our early events.

 

Doc. ThDr. Vladimír Poláček, a member of our Society and a famous canon law expert, died on 2 May 2009. He was born in Pilsen in 1925. Since the beginning of his theology studies he concentrated on the canon law of eastern Catholic churches, particularly of the Greek Catholic Church. In 1950-1968 the Czechoslovak state practically eliminated any activities of the Greek Catholic Church in the country. Thanks to the change in the political climate during the “Prague Spring“ of 1968, and particularly thanks to governmental regulation No. 70/1968 Coll., the Greek Catholic Church was permitted to be active in Czechoslovakia once again. In 1969 Vladimír Poláček was ordained a Greek Catholic priest in Prešov but did not obtain state approval to be active in the Church.

In 1990–1995 Mons. Vladimír Poláček served as the Dean of the Greek Catholic Theological School of Pavel Jozef Šafárik University in Prešov and the head of the Church Law Department at the School. Following the dissolution of Czechoslovakia he moved to the Czech Republic in 1995; he worked in the parish of Domaslavice at Frýdek-Místek and was appointed a judge of the Interdiocesal Court in Olomouc. He taught moral theology at the Sts Cyril and Methodius School of Theology of Palacký University in Olomouc.

 

Requiescant in pace!

 

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Brief News

 

Conference Religion and Public Power in EU Countries, Olomouc 2009

The above mentioned international conference took part in the building of Archbishopric Museum in Olomouc, Northern Moravia, on 11 – 12 June 2009. It was organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, and lead by the Deputy Minister Ing. Jaromír Talíř and Head of Church Departement Ing. Pavla Bendová. About 30 experts from most of EU member states participated in the conference. The topics were the comparison of church financing systems and settlement of property injustices caused to churches during the communist totalitarian era. Sessions were chaired by JUDr. PhDr. Petr Kolář, Ph.D., and Mgr. Jakub Kříž. Prof. JUDr. Jiří Rajmund Tretera delivered the introductory lecture Financing of Churches in the EU countries. 

 

Establishment of the Metropolitan Church Court in Prague

Based on a decree by the prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature and an agreement among the bishops of the Bohemian Church province, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Prague issued decree No. 4722/2009 establishing as of 1 July 2009 the Metropolitan Church Court of the Prague Archdiocese. As of that date the Interdiocesal Court of the Czech Church Province, which was created by a decree dated 30 May 1982 by the Prague archbishop and the ordinaries of the Litoměřice, Hradec Králové and České Budějovice dioceses, ceased to exist. As of 1 July 2011 the Metropolitan Court in Prague will become the appellate court for the diocesan courts in Hradec Králové and Pilsen, both established as of 1 July 2009. Until then the appellate court for both courts is the Interdiocesal Court of the Moravian Church Province in Olomouc.

The decree of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature stipulates that the appellate court for the Metropolitan Church Court of the Prague Archdiocese is the Interdiocesal Court of the Moravian Church Province in Olomouc. This relationship is a mutual one; the Metropolitan Court in Prague is the appellate court for first instance decisions by the Interdiocesal Court in Olomouc.

With the consent of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature and upon request by the ordinaries of the Litoměřice and České Budějovice dioceses and the Apostolic Exarch of the Greek Catholic Church in the Czech Republic, the Metropolitan Court in Prague will handle matters that will eventually be dealt with by courts of dioceses once those courts are established.

P. prof. JUDr. Ignác Antonín Hrdina, DrSc., O.Praem. was appointed the Metropolitan Church Court vicar of the Prague Archdiocese; ThDr. Jiří Svoboda, JC.D. was appointed the deputy vicar of the Court.

 

Establishment of Church Courts in the Hradec Králové and Pilsen Dioceses

The Church Court of the Hradec Králové Diocese was established as of 1 July 2009 by decree No. 1525/2009 of the Roman Catholic Hradec Králové Diocese bishop. Mons. Josef Růt, a Papal prelate, was appointed the Court vicar; ICLic. Václav Hegr was appointed the deputy vicar of the Court.

The Church Court of the Pilsen Diocese was established as of 1 July 2009 by decree 919/2009 of the Roman Catholic Pilsen Diocese bishop. Mons. ICLic. Vladimír Gajdušek was appointed the Court’s vicar.

 

 

 

The 15th Annual Conference “The Church and the State”, Brno 2009

Masaryk University in Brno, Faculty of Law, Departement of Constitutional Law and Politology, organized the above mentioned conference, which reminded sad 60th Anniversary of the communist Acts on Churches (1949). JUDr. Kateřina Šimáčková, Ph.D., Mgr. Petr Jäger, JUDr. Pavel Molek and Mgr. Ladislav Vyhnánek from the Masaryk University and the Constitutional Court or Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic in Brno organized the conference. 13 speakers from all the Republic, delivered their lectures.

 

Symposium “Peter’s Office − On the Service of the Roman Bishop” in Hradec Králové

The diocesan theological institute in Hradec Králové announced that it will organize a one-day symposium on the above topic on 19 September 2009 in New Adalbertinum; it is intended for priests, deacons, parish assistants and interested members of the public. The lecturers include ThLic. Prokop Brož, Th.D., Mgr. Pavel Kavalír, ThLic. Karel Sládek, Th.D., prof. PhDr. František X. Halas, CSc., and PhDr. Tomáš Petráček, Ph.D., Th.D.

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