GARANTÍAS CONSTITUCIONALES Y AUTONOMÍA DE LAS ORGANIZACIONES RELIGIOSAS EN CHILE

Abstract

This commentary analyzes two judgements issued by the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Chile, respectively, following the appeal for habeas corpus filed in favor of a priest against the Archbishopric which intends to reverse a preliminary measure dictated by the ecclesiastical authority as part of a canonical criminal process. The petition has some resemblance to the old “resource to force”, a civil action of the Colonial time used to force a change on a judgment issued in ecclesiastical jurisdiction