Francis Amends the Vatican Penal Code fsspx.news

The ink of the new edition of the Vatican Penal Code was barely dry when changes began appearing in its pages. As reported in a previous article, Msgr. Juan Ignacio Arrieta, project manager of the recent compilation, specified on December 10: “The Vatican Penal Code as published today is the end result of a long process of revisions over the years.”

This long review does not appear to be over, however. Indeed, by an apostolic letter in the form of a motu proprio, signed on February 8, 2021, the Sovereign Pontiff has just reformed the penal code of the smallest state in the world. Rest assured, even if the trials were to increase, the Vatican will not be affected by the scourge of prison overcrowding!—even though there are no prisons within Vatican City: the detainees are locked in an Italian prison, at the expense of the Holy See…

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