On Monday morning Pope Leo XIV received judges and officials of the Apostolic Tribunal of the Roman Rota at the Vatican, using his first annual address to the court to warn against what he described as a “dangerous relativisation of truth” in the Church’s judicial system regarding marriage.
Speaking in the Clementine Hall at the opening of the Rota’s judicial year, the Pope insisted that ecclesiastical justice must never be reduced either to a cold application of law or to a form of compassion detached from objective truth. Justice in the Church, he said, must always be exercised as a genuine pastoral service, rooted in the unity of truth and charity.
