Restorative justice offers closure to victims, addresses trauma that undermines belief in God and the Church, and reduces instances of moral impediments to receiving the sacraments or participating in liturgical activities, thereby safeguarding spiritual well-being.
Restorative justice aims to repair the harm between a victim, the offender, and the community and it is based on three pillars—harms and needs, obligations, and engagement.
“The demands of justice be satisfied lest the giving of what is due in justice be represented as the offering of a charitable gift” (Apostolicam Actuositatem, 8).
Legal and moral justice do not depend on what people say but on how the authority’s actions and behaviours correspond to the will of God and promote the holiness journey and salvation of all souls.
The remuneration of priests follows distributive justice, which is hinged on equity.
Just wages are based on distributive justice. However, paying the agreed wage is commutative justice.
A law may be legal but immoral. The spirituality of canon law concerns both the legality and morality of the law in making, interpreting, and applying the law.
The irregularity to orders does not arise from the sinful dimension of abortion but from the delictual dimension.
An offence can both be a sin and a delict. However, while an offence can be a sin and not a delict, it is rare for a delict not to be a sin.
The officeholder should never forget that ecclesiastical offices are exercised in the name of the Church, which is why offices were established in a stable manner.
