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This article deals with the relationship between the judicial decisions of Brazilian ordinary courts and ecclesiastical courts, on the basis of the principles of private international law, which include respect for the "ordre public" and the rules of international jurisdiction. According to this scenario, the author argues that, just as with a foreign judgement, Brazilian law should recognize ecclesiastical court decisions concerning canonical administrative law, provided that they result from due process of law and are issued by the competent authorities according to the Brazilian rules. Focused on procedural law, the author identifies in the Canon Law Code the basic principles of judicial protection of individuals against the Public Administrative Authorities, as such principles are currently recognized by European and Latin American legal systems, which, in principle, imposes on a limit on the extent to which Brazilian authorities may rule on questions of canonical law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]