Il contributo di Joaquín Llobell riguardo al giudizio penale nella Chiesa

Through the examination of Joaquín Llobell’s extensive treatises regarding Criminal procedure, its evolutionary parable within the legal system of the Church is outlined with great clarity up to the latest outcomes. Though a staunch supporter of the priority and preferabili- ty of the judicial way, the Author ascertain that a gradual ‘admini- strationalization’ of the penal trial has been recently asserted: especially in order to deal quickly and effectively with sexual abuses that were committed by clerics. In his wise writings, however, He does not cease to point out what could be improved so that administrative procedures can be consistent with the essential postulates of due process. Through the examination of Joaquín Llobell’s extensive treatises regarding Criminal procedure, its evolutionary parable within the legal system of the Church is outlined with great clarity up to the latest outcomes. Though a staunch supporter of the priority and preferability of the judicial way, the Author ascertain that a gradual ‘administrationalization’ of the penal trial has been recently asserted: especially in order to deal quickly and effectively with sexual abuses that were committed by clerics. In his wise writings, however, He does not cease to point out what could be improved so that administrative procedures can be consistent with the essential postulates of due process.

Attraverso la disamina delle approfondite trattazioni che Joaquín Llobell dedica al diritto processuale penale se ne disegna, con grande chiarezza, la parabola evolutiva all’interno dell’ordinamento giuridico della Chiesa: fino agli ultimi approdi. L’Autore, pure convinto sostenitore della priorità e della preferibilità della via giudiziaria, constata come si sia recentemente affermata una progressiva ‘amministrativizzazione’ del processo penale: soprattutto per affrontare celermente ed efficacemente gli abusi sessuali commessi dai chierici. Tuttavia non cessa, nei suoi sapienti scritti, di suggerire quanto possa essere emendato per rendere le procedure amministrative coerenti ai postulati irrinunciabili del giusto processo.