Multidimensionality of Canon Law and Global Legal Principles

This article analyzes the mutual influences between canon law and secular law in the socalled secular era. Canon law brings light to secular law as it is a source of multi -secular juridical wisdom and transcendent knowledge. Therefore, this contribution does not respond to the standards of secular legal reasoning, nor is it coercive. It is a purely meta -rational light, which can be recognized and assimilated by legal systems without losing its note of secularity. For its part, secular law brings a refined juridical technique to canon law. Secular law helps canon law to limit the degree of discretion in the application of the law, to give greater significance to comparative law, to improve the communicative aspects of canon law, to implement procedural guarantees, especially the presumption of innocence, and to curb excessive juridicism.