{"id":6783,"date":"2021-06-08T13:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=6783"},"modified":"2021-06-28T07:05:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T14:05:32","slug":"in-the-news-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=6783","title":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size:40px\" style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);\">In the News<\/p>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On June 1, 2021, the Vatican unveiled its updated penal code. Unlike the previous code, published in 1983, this revised code emphasizes the obligation of bishops to enforce penalties. Note below the closing paragraph of Rocca\u2019s article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVatican Revises Church Law in Wake of Sex Abuse, Financial Scandals,\u201d <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, June 2, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Francis X. Rocca<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe revised code also includes a law&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/pope-francis-says-women-can-read-at-mass-as-debate-on-women-clergy-continues-11610388208?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">against women\u2019s ordination<\/a>, specifying automatic excommunication for anyone \u2018who attempts to confer a sacred order on a woman, and the woman who attempts to receive the sacred order.\u2019 Another update explicitly forbids the recording of confessions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>On June 1, 2021, the Vatican unveiled its updated penal code. Unlike the previous code, published in 1983, this revised code emphasizes the obligation of bishops to enforce penalties. Note below the closing paragraph of Rocca\u2019s article:<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cVatican Revises Church Law in Wake of Sex Abuse, Financial Scandals,\u201d <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, June 2, 2021<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>By Francis X. Rocca<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe revised code also includes a law&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/pope-francis-says-women-can-read-at-mass-as-debate-on-women-clergy-continues-11610388208?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">against women\u2019s ordination<\/a>, specifying automatic excommunication for anyone \u2018who attempts to confer a sacred order on a woman, and the woman who attempts to receive the sacred order.\u2019 Another update explicitly forbids the recording of confessions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6783"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6857,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783\/revisions\/6857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}