Administrative decisions are human and, therefore, fallible. Alsopapal decisions, taken outside the solemnities of his infallibility,are. Without the proper norms and standards applicable toadministrative decision-making, misjudgments may easily happen leading to wrong, inopportune or even harmful decisions. Thus, the need fordue process or, in other words, the general procedure for issuance ofadministrative acts.There are innumerable concerns which have to be attended to in churchadministration as permits, dispensations, appointments, division ofparishes, canonical erection or suppression of associations,imposition of penal sanctions, etc. Some of these concerns areprovided with welldefined procedures but, unfortunately, many do nothave specific rules to be followed. In such a situation, forefficiency in governance and proper protection of subjective rights,the due process in Church administration is simply a necessary minimum requirement of justice. This is what the book is all about.
