St. Peter holding the keys. / Bohumil Petrik/CNA.Vatican City, Apr 26, 2022 / 09:35 am (CNA).Pope Francis issued an apostolic letter on Tuesday bringing Church law up to date on the rules for dismissal from religious institutes, in light of the updated penal law on sanctions related to clerical sexual abuse and other crimes.The letter, known as Recognitum librum VI and issued motu proprio (on the pope s "own impulse") on April 26, modifies one sentence from canon 695 of the Code of Canon Law.The pope explained that the modification makes the line consistent with the major revisions made last year to Book VI of the code s penal law, which classified some crimes differently and introduced new crimes. The new text of canon 695 §1 says: "A religious must be dismissed from the institute for the delicts mentioned in can. 1395, 1397, and 1398, unless in the delicts mentioned in can. 1395, §2-3 and 1398 §1, the superior decides that dismissal is not completely necessary and t
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