How the Church creates legal transparency

Today, more than ever, the churches are in the public eye. The public expects the churches to act responsibly. This includes, among other things, creating financial transparency and ensuring legal transparency. Legal transparency is particularly important in administrative decisions in dioceses.

In Catholic dioceses, there is often no complete collection of applicable legal norms and no uniform procedure for enacting laws and administrative regulations. As a result, interested parties and stakeholders (faithful, employees, clergy) cannot fully inform themselves about the legal situation in force at any given time, the legislative process at diocesan level and the relevant case law.

A register of all legal norms accessible to all creates legal transparency. A defined legislative process with defined control steps can ensure that laws and administrative regulations meet the highest quality requirements. This generates legal certainty and acceptance on the part of all stakeholders.