Pope makes sweeping revision to church law, updates rules on sexual abuse
Pope makes sweeping revision to church law, updates rules on sexual abuse
Pope Francis on Tuesday issued the most sweeping revision to Catholic Church law in four decades, toughening regulations for clerics who abuse minors and vulnerable adults, commit fraud or ordain women.
Pope revises Church law, updates rules on sexual abuse
In a separate accompanying document, the pope reminded bishops that they were responsible for following the letter of the law.
While the Church has historically prohibited the ordination of women and the ban has been re-affirmed by popes, the 1983 code says only in another section that priestly ordination was reserved for "a baptised male".
The revised code specifically warns that both the person who attempts to confer ordination on a woman and the woman herself incur automatic excommunication and that the cleric risks being defrocked.
Pope makes sweeping revision to church law, updates rules on sexual abuse
Pope Francis on Tuesday issued the most sweeping revision to Catholic Church law in four decades, toughening regulations for clerics who abuse minors and vulnerable adults, commit fraud or ordain women.
Pope revises Church law, updates rules on sexual abuse
In a separate accompanying document, the pope reminded bishops that they were responsible for following the letter of the law.
While the Church has historically prohibited the ordination of women and the ban has been re-affirmed by popes, the 1983 code says only in another section that priestly ordination was reserved for "a baptised male".
The revised code specifically warns that both the person who attempts to confer ordination on a woman and the woman herself incur automatic excommunication and that the cleric risks being defrocked.
