Synod report proposes sweeping expansion of lay authority in canon law
Proposed changes to canon law from the Synod commission would dramatically expand the roles of lay Catholics in Church governance and judicial proceedings.
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Proposed changes to canon law from the Synod commission would dramatically expand the roles of lay Catholics in Church governance and judicial proceedings.
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The commission’s recommendations include broadening the roles that qualified laypeople can exercise in ecclesiastical offices and ministries, increasing lay participation in partic...
The Commission’s members approved by referendum the Instrumentum laboris for the Fourth Annual Report, due for publication in 2027 and emphasised that the meaningful participation...
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The reform, contained in the apostolic letter issued on August 29 under the title Mutua Concordia, changes canons 106 and 126 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. It took...
[Anglican Communion News Service] The Anglo-Roman Catholic International Commission held a virtual plenary meeting concluding the second phase of its latest work, which began in 20...
Canonists warn that proposed canon law reforms from the Synod on Synodality to transfer governing power to laypeople would ‘undermine the nature of the Church.’
The first part of the document contains proposals to amend the canons of the Code concerning the possibility for the lay faithful, both men and women, to exercise in the Church th...
Pope appoints 30 members to International Theological Commission Headlines
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Following the 2026 General Chapter, the Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ presented an update to "Protect and Heal" (Proteger y Sanar), the document that, since 2020, has d...
Pope Leo XIV has added one of America's leading Catholic educators with expertise in the connection between history and the faith to a key pontifical commission focused on preservi...
The SSPX announced on July 13 that it had lodged a preliminary appeal with the doctrinal dicastery on July 11, invoking canons 1734 and following of the Code of Canon Law The post...
Shared criteria for discerning new institutes, a delegate for consecrated life in every diocese, and contracts or memoranda of understanding covering formation, gender equality, re...
The court described a protected confession as a confidential acknowledgment of wrongdoing made to clergy for the purpose of seeking spiritual absolution, comfort or guidance. The r...
The Catholic Herald The Society of St Pius X (SSPX) has announced that it is pursuing "avenues of recourse", in accordance with canon law, to seek an examination of its objections...
Bishop Barron appointed to US international religious freedom commission Headlines
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from Gavin Ashenden Should a Catholic priest ever be required by law to break the seal of confession? Introduction. The seal of confession has come under renewed threat as part of...
The Antiochian House of Studies has announced a forthcoming Master of Eastern Orthodox Canon Law, a fully online graduate degree aimed at giving clergy, lay leaders, educators, and...
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