From the Church Law Society
Remembering Professor ThDr. JUDr.
Miroslav Zedníček (1931–2012)
When Church Law Review
No. 51–1/2012 noted the
80th birthday of Professor ThDr. JUDr. Miroslav
Zedníček, we did not realize that it
would be so shortly thereafter that we would
have to pay our fi nal
respects to him. Professor Zedníček passed away in the Litoměřice hospital on Sunday, 19 February 2012. The funeral took place in Tišnov on Monday, 27 February 2012.
A
detailed portrait of his life, entitled
“Professor Miroslav Zedníček – A Catholic
Priest, University Professor,
and an Attorney at Eighty,” was
published in the Bulletin of the Bar No. 11/2011 at p. 76. The author,
JUDr. Petr Poledník, the vice-president of the Czech Bar Association and an attorney in Brno, wrote in detail
about Professor Zedníček’s professional life. Among the
other points he makes, he reminds readers that Miroslav Zedníček, who had served since 1961 as an assistant professor at the Litoměřice Theological School, was expelled from
the School by the state
administration in 1965. Miroslav Zedníček initiated a court proceeding concerning the invalidity of the act, in which
he represented himself and won the case. This
experience contributed to
his ongoing interest in secular law and the work of
the secular Bar.
At
the end of his life, Professor Zedníček’s professional contribution was recognized at the
7th annual competition for all legal
professions, which took place in Brno on 27 January
2012. In the competition, which is organized
by epravo.cz and the Czech Bar Association,
Professor Zedníček received
the title Lawyer of the
Year for 2011 in the category of
Civil Law.
Congratulations to the Members
of the Church
Law Society
As
of 15 January 2012 R. D.
Mgr. Tomáš Roule was appointed a canon to the Metropolitan Chapter at St. Vitus in Prague.
On
26 March 2012, Rev.mus
Miroslav Konštanc Adam OP, was
appointed Rector of Pontifi cal
University of St. Thomas Aquinas
in Rome. Rev.mus Bruno Cadoré OP, Master General of the Dominican Order,
and Grand Chancellor of the University, passed him over the
Decree of Nomination, with an approval of
the Congregation for Catholic Education.
Brief News
New
Cardinal Creation
The Holy Father announced
the names of those elevated
to the position of cardinal of
the Holy Roman Church on the holiday
of the Epiphany
on 6 January 2012, at the Angel of the Lord prayer.
One of the
new cardinals is ThLic. Dominik Duka OP, Metropolitan Archbishop of Prague and the Primate of Bohemia. The elevation took
place on Saturday, 18 February
2012, in Rome in the St.
Peter Basilica, at a meeting
of the Special
Consistory of the College of
Cardinals. Cardinal Dominik
Duka was proclaimed a cardinal-priest of the Church
of St. Marcelino and Peter in Rome
(close to Lateran).
One of the new
curial cardinals is the renowned
canon law expert Francesco Coccopalmerio, a titular archbishop and the president of the Pontifical
Council for Legislative Texts.
Presentation of a Slovak
Translation of the Code
of Canons of the Eastern
Churches
An international conference, “Ornamento Ecclesiae Omni”, took place on 22 February 2012 at the Greek
Catholic Theological School in Prešov, Slovakia. The conference was organized on the occasion of the
presentation of the offi cial
Slovak version of the CCEO. Professor
Leszek Adamowicz, from
Lublin, and Associate Professor
František Čitbaj, from
Prešov, the translator of the Code, organized the conference. Among the speakers
were Ján Babjak SJ, the Archbishop of Prešov, and Milan Chautur CSsR, the Eparchial
Bishop of Košice. Among the presenters
were Associate Professor Stanislav Přibyl, from the Theological School of the
University of South Bohemia
in České Budějovice, JUDr. Alena Krunková, from the University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik
in Košice, and JCLic. Jurij Popovič, the Court Vicar
of the Prešov Metropolis. The Slovak translation of the Code of Canons
of the Eastern
Churches can be purchased in any of the
Greek Catholic bishops’ offices in Slovakia.