Original scientific paper
The Pali (Pallium) - Legal and Liturgical Regulations in the Canon Law code and in the Post-Council Liturgical Books
Ivan Jakulj
; Catholic Faculty of Theology University of Split
Abstract
In this work the author points out a special contribution to the
reform of the legal matter on the pali given by Pope VI in his M. P "Inter eximia" by which he abolished the earlier practice of honorary awarding the pali to the whole Church, and decided that only metropolitans and Jerusalem patriarch of Latin rite have an advance right of the pali. The papal commission for the reform of the Code has attentively finalised the five previous canons into one canon, can. 437, as one and only regulation on the pali in the Canon Law Code In the second part the author discusses the duty of requesting, the way of awarding and using the pali. Explaining the duty of requesting the pali within the regular given period of three months (counting from the Episcopal inauguration or the canon entrusting of the metropolitan see), a somewhat modified idea of the metropolitan in the Code is elaborated, and then it is stressed that the chosen metropolitan assumes that obligation whether it be his first appointment at the head of a church region or a transfer to the new metropolitan see. Explaining the way of awarding the pali, the author presents two approved liturgical patterns (one from the Roman Pontifical and the other from the Episcopal Ceremonial) applied depending on whether the pali is awarded on the occasion of Episcopal inauguration or apart from it. Then the work deals with the duty and the way of taking the profession of faith and the oath of fidelity that the metropolitan takes before the Roman pontiff or a
bishop entrusted by him. In the end, the author discusses the use of the pali and stresses that the metropolitan is allowed to use it in ali the churches when celebrating the mass or when the mass is celebrated on the occasion of a great feast, but only in the area of his church region. Contrary to previous liturgical regulations, the "pali days" are no longer specified, but that is regulated by a more general liturgical regulation, in order to emphasise more strongly the liturgical and pastoral meaning of the pali. And although, according to the Code, the right of the pali in the Latin Church belongs only to the right metropolitan, the pali also belongs to the Roman pontiff and, by special right, to the dean of the Cardinal Board too, who ordains as a bishop the newly elected pope, if at the moment of the electlon he wouldn't have the bishop's order.
Keywords
pali; metropolitan; M. P. "Inter eximia"; can. 437, Roman pontiff; Episcopal Ceremonial
Hrčak ID:
38724
URI
Publication date:
21.6.2004.
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