[AnAmericanMother]

Actually, there WAS such an instruction, dating to the early 1960s as I recall.

The problem was that a number of American bishops decided they knew better than the Vatican and didn't follow it.

The reissuance is more of a "Yes, we really meant it."

[DBeers]

Thank you —yes -very true. I would say that the most recent removed some apparent loopholes...