Records from Commissionis Codici Iuris Canonici Recognoscendo

Records from the committees that discussed the drafts of the code of canon law were saved by the Holy See.  The 18 pages of excerpts, above, compiled by Mary’s Advocates were from full texts that are published on the by the Pontifical Council of Legislative Texts shown below.

Full Texts for 1983 CIC Canon 1692
Schema de Processibus

1971 April 19-21
Ex Actis Pont. Comm. CIC Recognoscendo
De Causes Separationis Coniugum. Can. 1-14 (page 144-152)
https://www.delegumtextibus.va/content/dam/testilegislativi/ARCHIVIO/CIC%20Archivio/deprocessibus/deProcessibus-Sessio-11.pdf

1976 November 3
Praenotanda VII. De Causis Separationis Coniugium. Can. 60-61 (page XVI).
Pars Tertia, De Iudiciis Specialibus, secto II De Causis Matrimonialibus, Titulus II, De Causis Separationis Coniugum, Can. 356 – 361 (page 82)
https://www.delegumtextibus.va/content/dam/testilegislativi/ARCHIVIO/CIC%20Archivio/schemata-canonumcic/deProcessibus.pdf

1976 November 3
Praenotanda, VII. De Causis Separationis Coniugium. Can. 60-61 (page 195-196).
Pars Tertia, De Iudiciis Specialibus, Secto II De Causis Matrimonialibus, Titulus II, De Causis Separationis Coniugum, Can. 356 – 361 (page 434-435)
https://www.delegumtextibus.va/content/dam/testilegislativi/ARCHIVIO/CIC%20Archivio/deprocessibus/schemaCanonumLibriVIIDeProcessibus.pdf

1979 March 31 (die 31 martii 1979)
Titulus II, De Causis Separationis Coniugum, Can. 356 – 361 (page 272 – 274)
https://www.delegumtextibus.va/content/dam/testilegislativi/ARCHIVIO/CIC%20Archivio/deprocessibus/deProcessibus-SeriesAltera-Sessio-6.pdf

1980 June 29
Liber VII De Processibus, Pars III De Processu Specialibus, Titulus I De Causes Matrimonialibus, Caput II De Causis Separationis Coniugum, Can. 1644 – 1648 (page 362 -363)
https://www.delegumtextibus.va/content/dam/testilegislativi/ARCHIVIO/CIC%20Archivio/schemata-canonumcic/schemaCIC1980.pdf

1981 July 16
There are no addatur for Liber VII, Pars III, specialibus, De Causis Separationis Coniugum, Can. 1644 – 1648 (page 332).
https://www.delegumtextibus.va/content/dam/testilegislativi/ARCHIVIO/CIC%20Archivio/schemata-canonumcic/relatioAnimadversionumadNovissimumSchemaCIC.pdf

1982 March 25
Liber VII De Processibus, Pars III De Quibusdam Processibus Specialibus, Titulus I De Processibus Matrimonialibus, Caput II De Causis Separationis Coniugum, Can. 1692-1696 (page 293)
https://www.delegumtextibus.va/content/dam/testilegislativi/ARCHIVIO/CIC%20Archivio/schemata-canonumcic/schemaNovissimumCIC1982.pdf

EXCERPTS AND NOTE

• “matrimonial cases of the baptized belong by proper right to the ecclesiastical judge” […] “If the church would renounce its own duty and right, it would follow that a separation against the divine law would frequently be imposed or denied” (page 6, from April 19, 1971).
• “because cases of separation surround the reason of the public good and therefore they must be resolved by a public authority” (page 7, from April 19, 1971).
• “Other consultors proposed that it should say ‘servatis cautelis de quibus in § 2,’ [after having observed the precautions mentioned in §2] in place of ‘servato praescripto § 2,’ [ after having observed the prescript of §2] so that the intervention of the Ordinary of the residence of the spouses is not required. It was voted whether this proposition was pleasing: Yes: 3; No: 5” (page 15, from March 31, 1979)

Commentary from Anthony St. Louis Sanchez in Canon Law Thesis

“Some members of the coetus in 1979 had suggested that if the case concerned merely the civil effects, then the judge himself could allow the parties to approach the civil forum [footnote]. However, this suggestion was not accepted by the coetus. Thus, even if a person wants the mere civil effects of a divorce, permission of the diocesan bishop is still required.”

Footnote shows “See PONTIFICAL COMMISSION FOR THE REVISION OF THE CODE OF CANON LAW, Opera consultorum in recognoscendis schematibus, Coetus studiorum de processibus, De causis separationis coniugum, in Communicationes, 11 (1979), pp. 273.”

[page 39. St. Louis-Sanchez, Anthony. The Canonical Obligation of Spouses to Approach the Ecclesiastical Authority for a Separation. St Paul University, Ottawa. www.Academia.edu. 2014.

From the 1917 Code, Revising of Canons 1128 – 1132
Schema de Sacramentis

1972 November 7 & 8
Ex Actis Pont. Comm. CIC Recognoscendo (page 234 – 249)
Art. II — De separatione tori, mensae et habitationis
1917 CIC can. 1128 – 1132
http://www.delegumtextibus.va/content/dam/testilegislativi/documenta/cic/demuneresanctificandi/deMatrimonio-Sessio-16.pdf

1973 June
Pontificia Commission Conici Iuris Canonici Recognoscendo. Communicationes VOL. V – N. 1, 1973 (page 86 – 88)
Acta Commissionis. II. Opera Consultorum in apparandis canonum schematibus. De matrimonio. Art. II. De separatone manente vinculo
http://www.delegumtextibus.va/content/dam/testilegislativi/documenta/cic/demuneresanctificandi/deMatrimonio-SynthesiscircaSchema.pdf

1975 February 2
Schema Documenti Pontificii Quo Disciplina Canonica De Saramentis Recognoscitur. (page 91-92)
Titulus VII De Matrimonio. Caput X Se Separatione Coniugum. Art. 2 De Separatione Manente Vinculo
Can. 347-351 (from 1117 CIC 1128-1132)
http://www.delegumtextibus.va/content/dam/testilegislativi/documenta/cic/schemata-canonumcic/deSacramentis.pdf

1978 January 31, February 1
Pontificia Commissio Codici Iuris Canonici Recognoscendo (page 118 – 121)
Acta Commissionis. Opera Consultorum in apparandis Canonum Schematibus.
Can. 347 – 351 (from 1117 CIC 1128-1132)
http://www.delegumtextibus.va/content/dam/testilegislativi/documenta/cic/demuneresanctificandi/deMatrimonio-SeriesAltera-Sessio-5.pdf

1980 June 29
Pontificia Commissio Codici Iuris Canonici Recognoscendo.
Schema Codicis Iuris Canonici, iuxta animadversiones. (page 250 – 251)
Titulus VII De Matrimonio. Caput IX De separatione coniugum. Art. 2 De Separatioine Mante Vinculo
can. 1105-1109
http://www.delegumtextibus.va/content/dam/testilegislativi/documenta/cic/schemata-canonumcic/schemaCIC1980.pdf

1981 May 29
Pontificia Commissio Codici Iuris Canonici Recognoscendo
Relatio. Complectens Synthesim Animadversionum.
Of the nine applicable canons, 1101-1109, two had animadiversions
Ad can. 1106 and 1108 (page 266)
http://www.delegumtextibus.va/content/dam/testilegislativi/documenta/cic/schemata-canonumcic/relatioAnimadversionumadNovissimumSchemaCIC.pdf

1982 March 25
Can. 1151-1155 (page 204)
http://www.delegumtextibus.va/content/dam/testilegislativi/documenta/cic/schemata-canonumcic/schemaNovissimumCIC1982.pdf