
Working Document for Synod’s Continental Stage Calls for Reform of Church Structures
NEWS ANALYSIS: Canonists offered a mixed reception to the text released Oct. 27, with some dismissing its call for major reforms as a nonstarter.
NEWS ANALYSIS: Canonists offered a mixed reception to the text released Oct. 27, with some dismissing its call for major reforms as a nonstarter.
The Pope explained that the modification makes the line consistent with the major revisions made last year to Book VI of the code’s penal law, which classified some crimes differently and introduced new crimes.
No-meat rule is suspended when a solemnity of the Catholic Church falls on a Lenten Friday.
Geraldina Boni, a consultant of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts since 2011, weighs in.
Pope Francis explained that with the changes he wanted to encourage 'a more rapid effectiveness of the pastoral action of government on the part of the local authority.'
ANALYSIS: The interpretive document considerably tightens already-sweeping restrictions on the traditional form of the Roman Rite.
NEWS ANALYSIS: The new book’s goal is to show how the pontifical council has in practice been deprived of its duties, ousted from discussions about significant reforms, and used only in sporadic cases.
COMMENTARY: If what Biden says the Holy Father said is true, what they were discussing comes under Canon 916, not 915.
NEWS ANALYSIS: Understanding the canonical process and obedience are important in unpacking the contentious case of the Wisconsin priest and his bishop.
Pointing out the changes go into effect Dec. 8, 2021 on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, Msgr. Padazinski said the date “reaffirms that life itself and the protection of human dignity begin at the instant a child is conceived in the mother’s womb."
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