[eastsider]

What EXACTLY is the doctrinal “change” supposed to be? A change in canon law procedure does not necessarily encroach on anything “doctrinal”.

Indeed.

[piusv]

In recent years there has been a growing desire among Catholic writers to see canon law as an expression of theology and particularly of ecclesiology. The structure of the Church, they maintain, should reflect the theology of the Church and the laws which establish and protect these structures ought to be a faithful expression of dogmatic theology. These laws should be, and should be seen to be, dogmatic theology in the concrete, theology in action, applied doctrine. Gallagher, Canon Law (1978) at 90.

How do these changes not undermine the doctrine of the indissolubility of marriage and the Sixth Commandment? It reminds me of the 1983 Canon Law changes that now allow non-Catholics to receive communion without conversion. That change undermines the doctrine of the Eucharist and the First Commandment.