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Canonical compliance automation for diocesan tribunal administration. Built to survive the CIC, CCEO, and whatever your bishop decides on a Thursday.
CanonComply handles the paperwork hell of canonical proceedings — petition intake, case routing, notary queuing, and (as of v2.4) automatic escalation of ratum sed non consummatum cases to the appropriate dicastery without someone having to manually dig through the shared Drive folder at midnight.
It is not a replacement for your tribunal chancellor. Please do not use it as one. (Looking at you, Archdiocese of — actually, no, I'm not writing that in a README.)
The big one. Cases flagged as ratum et non consummatum (cc. 1061 §1, 1142) now auto-escalate to the Dicastery queue after 90 days of inactivity instead of just... sitting there. Forever. Like they were doing before. For three years.
- Escalation threshold is configurable per diocese (default: 90 days)
- Notification sent to assigned defensor vinculi AND tribunal notary
- Audit trail written to
case_eventstable — immutable, no soft deletes, don't ask me to add them - Works with both Latin Church and Eastern sui iuris configurations (finally — merci Dieu)
# config/escalation.yml
rsnc_escalation:
enabled: true
threshold_days: 90
notify:
- defensor_vinculi
- notary
dicastery_endpoint: "https://api.canoncomply.internal/v2/dicastery/rsnc"We're now integrated with 19 dioceses (up from 14). The five new ones are all running the CanonBase v3 export format which made this way less painful than the last batch.
| New Integrations | Format |
|---|---|
| Diocese of Krakow | CanonBase v3 |
| Diocese of Namur | CanonBase v3 |
| Diocese of Limerick | CanonBase v3 |
| Eparchy of Parma (CCEO) | CanonBase v3 + CCEO extension |
| Diocese of Hobart | CanonBase v3 |
Full integration list in /docs/integrations.md. That file is slightly out of date on the auth method for Limerick — they switched to OAuth2 in March and I haven't updated the docs yet. It still works, the docs are just wrong. Lo siento.
git clone https://github.com/canon-comply/canon-comply.git
cd canon-comply
cp .env.example .env
# fill in your values, especially TRIBUNAL_API_KEY and DIOCESE_ID
bundle install
rails db:migrate
rails serverRequires Ruby 3.2+, PostgreSQL 14+. Redis for the escalation job queue (Sidekiq). Don't use SQLite in prod, I've seen it done, I won't stop you, but I will be disappointed.
Most settings live in config/canon_comply.yml. The ones you actually need to touch:
diocese_id: "your-diocese-code"
tribunal_mode: "latin" # or "eastern"
escalation:
enabled: true
rsnc_auto: true # new in v2.4 — this is the thing
canonical_year_start: "advent" # affects liturgical calendar calculations.env file — minimum viable:
DATABASE_URL=postgresql://localhost/canon_comply_prod
REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379/0
TRIBUNAL_API_KEY=...
SECRET_KEY_BASE=...
bundle exec rspec
bundle exec rspec spec/services/escalation_service_spec.rb # just the new stuffTest coverage is decent for the escalation logic. The diocese adapter specs are flaky on CI when the mock server times out — known issue (#GH-1791), not fixed, probably won't be fixed soon. Run them locally if you care.
Stable (mostly).
The "mostly" is there because the Eparchy of Parma CCEO integration has one known edge case with mixed-rite marriages that I haven't fully worked out. It doesn't crash, it just routes incorrectly in about 2% of cases involving disparitas cultus dispensations. Ticket open: #GH-1852. Workaround: manual review flag is set automatically for those cases.
Everything else has been running in production at 7 dioceses for 6+ months without incident.
Open a PR. Write tests. Don't touch the escalation threshold logic without reading canon 1142 first, seriously, it matters.
If you're adding a new diocese integration, copy lib/adapters/diocese/namur_adapter.rb — it's the cleanest one.
AGPL-3.0. Because the Church has opinions about openness too.