Diploma Course

The diploma course in Ecclesiastical Tribunal Praxis is intended to qualify students to serve in those posts in ecclesiastical tribunals for which a degree of licentiate in Canon Law is not required. Those who have completed the course successfully will be conferred an appropriate diploma by the Institute, signed by the Vice-Chancellor, the Moderator, the Director, and the Registrar.

The content of the course will be:

1. Grounds of nullity of marriage: impediments; defects of consent; lack of canonical form;
2. Trials: trials in general; discipline to be observed in tribunals; parties in a case; contentious trial; introduction of a case; hearing; discussion; definitive judgment and administrative tribunal;
3. Matrimonial process: cases concerning the declaration of nullity of marriage; cases concerning the separation of spouses; dissolution of marriage ratum et non-consummatum;
4. Indian civil law on marriage: Indian Christian Marriage Act; Hindu Marriage Act; Muslim Marriage Law; Indian Civil Law on personal law.

This one year course intends to make the ministers of law equipped to respond to the various needs of the Church by helping them:

• To assume various roles in an ecclesiastical tribunal
• To serve in the eparchial curia and/or in the Institutes of
• Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic L ife
• To teach Canon Law with the updated practical application

Licentiate or doctorate in Canon Law.

A letter of authorization from the competent ecclesiastical authority.

Course fee: Rs. 20,000/- (including boarding)

Post Graduate Diploma in Ecclesiastical Jurisprudence

Lectures and Practical on two days a week (Tuesday & Wednesday, 7hrs/day).

1^st SEMESTER:

• Introduction to various ecclesiastical trials (21 hrs. /1¹Z> cr.)
• Motu Proprio Mitis et Misericors Jesus and Short Process (14 hrs./1 cr.)
• Eparchial procedure for the dissolution of the matrimonial bond (14 hrs./I cr.)
• Penal procedures: The documents and procedure in the cases (Delicta gravi ora, Sacramentorum Sanctitatis tutela, Mad re amarevole, Vos estis Lux mundi) (35 hrs. !2Vi cr.)
• POCSO and Safe environment programme of the Church (21 hrs. /I V2 cr.)
• Observance of civil law in the administration of Church temporalities and functioning of registered societies (14 hrs./I cr.)
• Religious: In contentious or penal trials and sanctions; procedures of exclaustration and dismissal of a religious (28 hrs. / 2 cr.)
• Declaration of nullity of the sacred ordination and process for dispensation from the obligation of celibacy (14 hrs./1 cr.)
• Administration of justice in Major Archiepiscopal Tribunals, Roman Rota and Apostolic Signature (21 hrs. /I!6 cr.)
• Judicial procedure and various grounds in cases of matrimonial nullity I (35hrs. /2!6cr.)

2^nd SEMESTER:

• Judicial procedure and various grounds in cases of matrimonial nullity II (35 hrs./2tecr.)
• Anthropological and medical questions in marriage cases: Those who are incapable of giving proper consent (21 hrs. /11/2 cr.)
• Competence and functioning of different dicasteries of Apostolic See (21 hrs./116 cr.)
• Apostolic Penitentiary and its functions: Absolution of reserved sins and the procedure to get this absolution (14 hrs. /1 cr.)
• The practice of instruction of cases in eparchial tribunals (15 days: 105 hrs.)
• Appeals and Recourses: Study and Practice (5 days: 35 hrs.)
• Visit and study of the functioning of the Major Archiepiscopal Ordinary Tribunal (14 hrs.).

Besides the above given lecture classes students have to do assignments/practice on each topic according to the direction of the professor.

• One credit = 14 hrs.
• First Semester = 16 weeks = 32 days = 224 hrs.
• Second Semester = 18 weeks = 36 days = 252 hrs.
• Total 34 weeks = 68 days = 476 hrs.

According to the present distribution of hours:

• 1 st sem:217 hrs.
• 2nd sem: 245 hrs.
• 14 hrs. are reserved for meeting the unforeseen contingencies like holidays and other inconveniences.