When the Oratorium, also known as the One Supreme Court, also known as the Supreme Court of One Heaven is in Session in accord with the present sacred Covenant, The Court may use its Powers of Original Jurisdiction to make absolute and final rulings in accord with Divine Canon Law by Final Irrevocable Judgment. These absolute and final rulings shall be called Summa Dogma.

The words “Dogma” and “Dogmata” originally come from Latin and means a “philosophical tenet, belief or principle; or a decree or edict”. “Dogmata” means plural. The term originates from Ancient Greek δόγμα (dogma) meaning “opinion, belief, tenet or principle”.

When anyone references, writes or speaks of official, perfect or Divine Dogma or Dogmata in general, it shall mean Summa Dogma and no other.

In accordance with the Will of the Divine Creator of all existence, let it be known to all through the present Covenant that all power, force, authority, description, effect, authority and conceptual manifestation concerning Summa Dogma is given, granted, sourced, conveyed, delivered, exists and originates as defined by the present Article and no other.

A Summa Dogma is ipso facto (as a matter of fact) original law and primary law and the highest possible final and irrevocable tenet, principle and edict from a validly constituted forum of law of any and all societies, aggregates, associations, persons, entities and higher order spirits, living and deceased having universal and absolute, divine and temporal jurisdiction:

(i) Providing the Summa Dogma adheres to the Criteria of valid Summa Dogma as prescribed by the present Article; and

(ii) The officer or body issuing the Summa Dogma has the power and authority to do so in accord with the present sacred Covenant; and

(iii) That the Summa Dogma does not seek to define or create a new Right, or new Property, or seek to grant, give, devise, convey, alienate, surrender, seize, disqualify, enclose, capture, arrest, securitize, suppress, forfeit or annul any existing Rights unless such an action has already been acknowledged and defined as permitted within the present sacred Covenant or associated Covenants and Charters; and

(iv) That the Summa Dogma does not contradict the most sacred present Covenant or the body of canons known as Astrum Iuris Divini Canonum; and

(v) The new Summa Dogma does not contradict any previous Summa Dogma.

A valid Summa Dogma adheres to the following essential criteria:

(i) The Oratorium as the Supreme Court of One Heaven is in Session and capable of properly rendering a Summa Dogma; and

(ii) That a properly constituted and highest and most competent forum of Living Members as Justices as defined by the present Covenant and associated Covenants exists as the union of the three Supreme Courts of the Three Faiths, or if the three faiths are not yet in proper operation then the Globe Union Forum, or if the Globe Union Forum is not yet in proper operation, then a Union Basilica; and

(iii) That the Justices and officials and parties of the competent temporal forum have been duly envoked to evoke a Special Hearing for a Summa Dogma; and

(iv) A petition and memorandum is received by the competent forum in the prescribed form, duly lodged, recorded and gazetted for a Summa Dogma to be rendered; and

(v) That the specific subject matter of the petition and memorandum is within the Powers of Original Jurisdiction of the Oratorium as the Supreme Court of One Heaven; and

(vi) That the core questions outlined within the Petition to be answered have not previously been specifically addressed in a previous Summa Dogma.