The Holy Wheel
By Fr LW Gonzales On January 29th, 2010
Pope Benedict XVI poses with judges to mark the start of the judiciary year of the Sacra Rota at the Vatican January 29, 2010.
The Apostolic Tribunal of the Roman Rota (in Latin, Tribunal Apostolicum Rotae Romanae), for hundreds of years also called the Sacred Roman Rota, is the highest appellate tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church, with respect to the vast majority of its Latin Rite members and several of the Eastern Catholic Churches and is the second-highest ecclesiastical court constituted by the Holy See. The Catholic Church has a complete legal system, which is the oldest legal system still in use today. The court is named Rota (wheel) because the judges, called auditors, originally met in a round room to hear cases.
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