CNA Staff, May 11, 2021 / 09:00 am (CNA).
The Vatican has told the bishops of England and Wales that it is amending the Code of Canon Law so that тАЬcrimes against minors are considered under a different title than crimes against the obligations of celibacy on the part of clerics.тАЭ
The Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts shared the information in a letter dated April 19, responding to the English and Welsh bishopsтАЩ request for adjustments to canon law concerning clerical sexual abuse.
In the letter, addressed to bishopsтАЩ conference president Cardinal Vincent Nichols, it said: тАЬAfter review of the information and recommendation Your Eminence submitted to this Pontifical Council, I am pleased to inform you that the concerns you have expressed have already been taken into consideration in the revision of Book VI of the 1983 CIC [Code of Canon Law], which is currently in process.тАЭ