Pope promulgates revised canon lawn on crime and punishment

Angelus ^ | June 1, 2021 | Cindy Wooden

[Marchmain]

A series of laws and procedures promulgated by now-retired Pope Benedict XVI and, especially, by Pope Francis to protect children, promote the investigation of allegations of clerical sexual abuse and punish offenders are included in a heavily revised section of the Code of Canon Law.

"Book VI: Penal Sanctions in the Church,"...

...the revision addresses a host of issues that have come up in the life of the church since St. John Paul II promulgated the code in 1983. The descriptions of crimes of sexual abuse, including child pornography, are more explicit, and the required actions of a bishop or superior of a religious order in handling allegations are more stringent.

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"In the past, much damage has been caused by a failure to perceive the intimate relationship existing in the church between the exercise of charity and recourse -- when circumstances and justice require it -- to the discipline of sanctions. This way of thinking, as experience has taught us, risks leading to a life of behavior contrary to the discipline of morals, for the remedy of which exhortations or suggestions alone are not sufficient," Pope Francis wrote in "Pascite Gregem Dei" (Shepherd God's Flock), the apostolic constitution promulgating the changes.

While church law applies to all Catholics, the pope said, for bishops, the observance of canon law "can in no way be separated from the pastoral 'munus' (service) entrusted to them, and which must be carried out as a concrete and inalienable requirement of charity not only toward the church, the Christian community and possible victims, but also toward those who have committed a crime, who need both mercy and correction on the part of the church."

[Marchmain]

...The revision moves the canons about the sexual abuse of children -- on the part of a priest, religious or layperson working for the church -- out of the section on violations of the obligation of celibacy and into a newly titled section of "Offenses Against Human Life, Dignity and Liberty."...

[Skywise]

And that’s how they pave the way to allow gay marriage and transgender blessings.

By creating a new division of church “law” that applies to “human rights” the Pope has flung the doors wide open to secularizing the church to whatever the communists want it to be.

[ontap]

Pope....what’s that????

[Bloodandgravy]

Pope “Get off my lawn!”