Posted on 04/27/2022 4:15:49 PM PDT by ebb tide
Less than a year after he strengthened the Code of Canon Law’s section on crimes, Pope Francis has issued an apostolic constitution motu proprio (on his own initiative) that alters the wording of one of the canons.
As a result of the alteration, religious-order priests who sexually abuse minors and other vulnerable persons, or who commit canonical crimes related to child pornography, will no longer be automatically dismissed from their religious institutes.
In addition, religious-order priests who “force someone to perform or submit to sexual acts” will no longer be automatically dismissed from their religious institutes.
Canon 695 §1 previously stated (link 1, link 2):
A member must be dismissed for the delicts mentioned in cann. 1397, 1398, and 1395, unless in the delicts mentioned in can. 1395, §2, the superior decides that dismissal is not completely necessary and that correction of the member, restitution of justice, and reparation of scandal can be resolved sufficiently in another way.
As a result of the Pope’s apostolic letter Recognitum Librum VI, dated and made public April 26, Canon 695 §1 now states (substantive changes in bold):
Can. 695 §1. A member must be dismissed for the delicts mentioned in cann. 1395, 1397, and 1398, unless in the delicts mentioned in can. 1395, §2-3 and 1398, §1, the major superior decides that dismissal is not completely necessary and that correction of the member, restitution of justice, and reparation of scandal can be resolved sufficiently in another way.
The two canonical crimes that no longer entail automatic dismissal from religious institutes are the crimes cited in Canon 1395 §3 and Canon 1398 §1.
Canon 1395 §3 refers to “a cleric who by force, threats or abuse of his authority commits an offence against the sixth commandment of the Decalogue or forces someone to perform or submit to sexual acts.”
Canon 1398 §1, in its first subsection, refers to a cleric who “commits an offence against the sixth commandment of the Decalogue with a minor or with a person who habitually has an imperfect use of reason or with one to whom the law recognizes equal protection.”
In its second and third subsections, Canon 1398 §1 refers to a cleric who
grooms or induces a minor or a person who habitually has an imperfect use of reason or one to whom the law recognizes equal protection to expose himself or herself pornographically or to take part in pornographic exhibitions, whether real or simulated;
immorally acquires, retains, exhibits or distributes, in whatever manner and by whatever technology, pornographic images of minors or of persons who habitually have an imperfect use of reason.
In ending the automatic dismissal from religious institutes of religious-order clerics who commit rape, sexually abuse minors and other vulnerable persons, or engage in child pornography, Pope Francis left unchanged the provisions of the Code that address the separate question of whether these religious-order clerics should be dismissed from the clerical state.
Under the Code, diocesan clerics who commit these canonical crimes, as well as religious-order clerics who commit these crimes, are “to be punished with just penalties, not excluding dismissal from the clerical state if the case so warrants.”
Ping
When the EFF is this Satanic pope going to die???!?!?!
Bergoglio haereticus est.
and you holy rollers try to understand why your church is imploding... smmfh... attacked satanically fromm all sides and within, and no one does a GD thing.
And what exactly have you done about Joe Biden and Heels Up???
Probably to protect one of his buds. He makes me sick.
I’m one guy... the church is millions of parishioners all singing kumbaya as their head priests organize events to commemorate all the new rainbow flags I see flying in front of churches now.
And as i’ve stated for years... i’m not dumb enough to start the shooting war on my own. but if a few thousand start, i’m behind them all the way!!
And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.
Glass house ... stones.
Hypocrite.
F.... O....
Like I said:
Hypocrite
Satan laughs. Men: gird your loins.
good! now the parents can erform correction right on the street.
So why are you deflecting from your pope?
What are you protecting him for by trying to change the narrative?
You’re funny.
Please provide evidence where I have ever protected Jorge the Heretic.
Put up or shut up, metmom.
dont bother... I shouldnt have responded to the first response.
I wouldn't have posted this article with my comment, if I was trying to protect the pervert pope, would I, metmom?
Hey with the way things are going the Church’s pedos will not only be rehabilitated, they’ll be celebrated.
Pope Francis was just named a board member advisor for Walt Disney Company.
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