Because of the hierarchical power structure in the Roman Catholic Church, change occurs about as fast as tectonic uplift. But the spark of a sex scandal a decade ago exposed a legal system which now ...
A popular canon law website, CanonLaw.Ninja, is removing much of its content by Friday, March 17, to comply with a copyright complaint, which will leave the website without an English translation of ...
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 ...
Now it is formally illegal to ordain a woman as a deacon. Or as a priest. Or as a bishop. On June 1, Pope Francis promulgated revisions to the Code of Canon Law detailing crimes and punishments. The ...
The changes in canon law Pope Francis made to ensure that marriage annulment cases were handled more quickly, more pastorally and with less expense mean that some changes should be made in the way ...
Pope Francis said on Friday that canon law can be like medicine, because justice is healing for the entire Church. The pope also said that a long-running process of revising canon law's penal norms ...
The Canon Law Society of America on Tuesday expressed gratitude for the Vatican’s new revisions to Book VI of the Code of Canon Law, saying that the changes were needed. “This reinvigoration of canon ...
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Catholic Church’s Code of Canon Law is an instrument that must serve the church’s pastoral mission of bringing God’s mercy to all and leading them to salvation, Pope Francis ...
Now that the abuse allegation against Bishop Kevin Rhoades has been investigated and refuted by law enforcement, it is time to debunk the misleading stories of his alleged attempts to cover up actual ...
Pope Paul called the Second Vatican Council “the beginning not the end” of renewal in the Roman Catholic Church, but apart from the vernacular liturgy, change has come slowly. To get on with reform, a ...