LAS OBSERVACIONES DE LOS OBISPOS CHILENOS A LOS PROYECTOS DE LIBRO IV, DE DELICTIS ET POENIS, Y LIBRO V, DE IUDICIIS ECCLESIASTICIS, DEL CóDIGO DE DERECHO CANóNICO DE 1917

the first canonical law code drafted by the latin catholic church was mandated by pope saint pious x in 1904. however, the mission was not the work of a close group of experts, but considered in two separate occasions the latin episcopate opinions and in both, the chilean opinions of chilean bishops. starting from the documents of the vatican secret archive, this paper studies the observations made by the chilean catholic bishops to the new book iv, named de delictis et poenis, and book v, named de iudiciis ecclesiasticis, for the canonical code sent in 1913 and 1914.