The recent renewal of canonical penal law. A legal-social approach. KU Leuven
The penal law within the Latin Catholic Church is in full evolution.
The new norms concerning the most serious delicts, reserved for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), were promulgated on 30 April 2001 by Pope John Paul II in his Motu Proprio "Sacramentorum Sanctitatis Tutela" (abbreviated as normae SST) and during the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI the canon law was further renewed. On 21 May 2010, the CDF issued a ...