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Breaking: Pope Francis makes big changes to canon law

The Tuesday Pillar Post

JD Flynn
Jun 01, 2021
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Hey everybody,

Welcome to the Tuesday Pillar Post.

For canon lawyers, today is a long-awaited day. Pope Francis has promulgated the new Book VI of the Code of Canon Law, which contains the Church’s universal penal law. This is a big deal in the life of the Church.

I have been hearing since I was a canon law student in 2005 or 2006 that a new Book VI was fo…

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