Pope Francis Church law - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 28 Apr 2022 07:13:39 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Pope Francis Church law - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Pope Francis updates canon law on dismissal from religious institutes https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/04/28/pope-francis-updates-canon-law-on-dismissal-from-religious-institutes/ Thu, 28 Apr 2022 07:50:30 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=146198 Pope Francis issued an apostolic letter on Tuesday bringing Church law up to date on the rules for dismissal from religious institutes, in light of the updated penal law on sanctions related to clerical sexual abuse and other crimes. The letter, known as Recognitum Librum VI and issued motu proprio (on the pope's "own impulse") Read more

Pope Francis updates canon law on dismissal from religious institutes... Read more]]> Pope Francis issued an apostolic letter on Tuesday bringing Church law up to date on the rules for dismissal from religious institutes, in light of the updated penal law on sanctions related to clerical sexual abuse and other crimes.

The letter, known as Recognitum Librum VI and issued motu proprio (on the pope's "own impulse") on April 26, modifies one sentence from canon 695 of the Code of Canon Law.

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.

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