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 Appellate Jurisdiction to make absolute and final rulings in accord with Divine Canon Law by Teaching and Adjudication, providing a sacred writ has been duly issued. These absolute and final rulings of teaching and adjudication shall be called Summa Doctrina.

The words “Doctrine” originally comes from Latin meaning a “teaching or instruction; an erudition or learning”. The term originates from Ancient Greek δοκέω (dokeō) meaning “thinking or teaching; or perception or consideration”.

When anyone references, writes or speaks of official, perfect or Divine Doctrine or Doctrina in general, it shall mean Summa Doctrina 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 Doctrina is given, granted, sourced, conveyed, delivered, exists and originates as defined by the present Article and no other.

A Summa Doctrina is ipso facto (as a matter of fact) the absolute highest possible and final appeal and judgment, edict, teaching instrument and legal instruction 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 Doctrina adheres to the Criteria of a valid Summa Doctrina as prescribed by the present Article; and

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

(iii) That the Summa Doctrina does not contradict the most sacred present Covenant or the body of canons known as Astrum Iuris Divini Canonum.

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

A valid Summa Doctrina 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 Doctrina; 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 Doctrina; and

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

(v) That the specific subject matter of the petition and memorandum is within the Powers of Appellate 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 Doctrina.