Principios jurídicos de organización

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As is well known, Vat. II has stimulated (and in many cases established) a movement of reforms in the Church, reflected in great part by the abundantpostconciliar legislation in this regard. Such a phenomenon can bee valuated from different points of view, but we would like to view it from a strictly organizational perspective, that is, insofart as it is a concrete technique which ofters a greater efficacy in the service of pastoral goals. A knowledge of said technique is therefore indispensable, insofar as it is composed of juridical principles which inspire any organizational phenomenon. On the one hand this work emphasizes in what these principies consist technically and on the other hand, in what their application to eclesiastical organization carries with it. The author suggests basic criteria, general principies, and organizational factors which demand a serious attempt to establish an efficient ecclesiastical organization, in present-day circumstances. Included in the study are the so-called juridical principies of decentralization, organic desconcentration of functions, hiérarchy, coordination and consultation. The underlying issue is truly complex, referring as It does to capital points of ecclesiastical organization. Important questions are thus dealt with: the change of power structures, the juridical regulation of its exercise, ecclesiastical government, necessary unity and coordination, etc. All in all, a truly relevant theme in
present day life, concerning both doctrine and ecclesiastical authority.