Titled “Vocare Peccatores” (To Call Sinners), the document begins by explaining the purposes of punishment in church law are “the restoration of justice, the correction of the offender and the reparation of offense and harm.”
Pope updates Eastern canon law on abuse, procedures, punishments
Changing canon law, pope brings Latin and Eastern practices closer
Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, spoke to journalists Sept. 15 after the publication of an apostolic letter published “motu proprio” (on his own initiative) in which Pope Francis ordered the changes to the Latin Code of Canon Law, the 1983 text governing the majority of the world’s Catholics.