Il processo di codificazione del diritto canonico e il contributo del cardinale Willem Van Rossum

Willem Van Rossun took part in the proceedings of Canon Law codification of 1917, as a member of the Commision of Consultores and of the Cardinal’s Commission, and he was chosen to represent the Dutch episcopate. As Consultor, thanks to his theological competence, he was commissioned by Mons. Gasparri to prepare four Vota about confirmation, extreme unction and marriage; in them, he preserved as much as possible the traditional Church’s doctrine, as demonstrated by the Archivio Segreto Vaticano documents consultation. Many of the proposed canons were included in the Codex Juris Canonici 1917.