Pope Francis received at the Wednesday audience the professors Antonio Viana and Javier Otaduy, coordinators of the General Dictionary of Canon Lawpublished by the high school Martín de Azpilcueta. of the University of Navarra, and published by the publishing house Thomson Reuters Aranzadi. The Dictionary has taken ten years of work and contains 2,509 words, written by 583 authors from 33 countries. It consists of seven volumes of 1,000 pages each.

The Dictionary was presented in the afternoon at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. The academic workshop was inaugurated by the President of the Pontifical University, Don Luis Romera and moderated by Professor Fernando Puig. Professors Eduardo Baura, from the same academic centre, Orazio Condorelli, from the University of Catania and Javier Otaduy, from the University of Navarra, also took part. The conclusions were delivered by the president of the Consociatio Internationalis Studio Iuris Canonici Promovendo, Mgr Patrick Valdrini, at position .

Photo gallery of the presentation of the Dictionary