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.
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Pope Francis Updates Canon Law on Dismissal from Religious Institutes
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.
Did You Know You Can Eat a Cheeseburger on the Solemnity of the Annunciation?
No-meat rule is suspended when a solemnity of the Catholic Church falls on a Lenten Friday.
Will the Latest Canon-Law Changes Further Delay the Vatican’s New Constitution?
Geraldina Boni, a consultant of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts since 2011, weighs in.
Pope Francis Seeks ‘Healthy Decentralization’ with New Changes to Canon Law
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.'
Traditional Latin Mass: Canonists Question the Legislative Force of Recent Vatican Guidelines
ANALYSIS: The interpretive document considerably tightens already-sweeping restrictions on the traditional form of the Roman Rite.
Is Pope Francis’ Pragmatic Approach Creating a Crisis for Canon Law?
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.
President Biden, Pope Francis and Canon Law
COMMENTARY: If what Biden says the Holy Father said is true, what they were discussing comes under Canon 916, not 915.
Catholic Church Law and Law of Love Inform Father Altman Case
NEWS ANALYSIS: Understanding the canonical process and obedience are important in unpacking the contentious case of the Wisconsin priest and his bishop.
‘A Welcome Necessity’: Canon Law Society Praises Revisions to Church Penal Sanctions
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."
