Code of Canon Law (1983)
8 analyses cite this document, at can. 749, can. 495, can. 1387, can. 751, can. 1364 §1, can. 1405 §1, 3, can. 212 §3, can. 1248 §1, can. 20, can. 750–751, can. 1353, can. 352, can. 518.
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- No new Code of Canon Law: Return to Tradition misreads a synod commission’s proposalsReturn to Tradition says the Vatican has announced a “diabolical” new Code of Canon Law. The synod’s Canonical Commission published a working document proposing amendments. Its canon 749 text restates Vatican II, and the seminary consent it describes belongs to a council of priests.can. 749can. 495Read the analysis
- Was the SSPX excommunicated for ‘fidelity’? What the 2026 documents give as the groundsRemnant headlines framed the SSPX excommunications as punishing fidelity and as part of a plan to ‘cancel Catholicism’. The Holy See’s published texts state different grounds and a different aim.can. 1387Read the analysis
- Bishop Schneider’s ‘hostile takeover’ warning: what was said, and what can be checkedAt the Catholic Identity Conference, Bishop Athanasius Schneider said a ‘hostile takeover’ within the Church’s administrative structure is marked by ‘brazen heresies’ among senior clergy. The reported excerpts name no examples, which limits what can be tested.can. 751can. 1364 §1can. 1405 §1, 3can. 212 §3Read the analysis
- Pittsburgh's unauthorized Latin Mass: the Sunday obligation, and what Quo Primum can and can't doThe Diocese of Pittsburgh says a Latin Mass it didn't authorize does not fulfil the Sunday obligation; LifeSiteNews says Quo Primum makes the old Mass permanently free to celebrate. Both claims need context from canon law.can. 1248 §1can. 20Read the analysis
- Is denying the death penalty’s permissibility heresy? Checking a LifeSiteNews report on the Holy See at the UNReporting the Holy See’s call at the UN for abolition, LifeSiteNews says the death penalty is “mandated by divine law” and that denying its permissibility is at least material heresy. The sources it cites speak of a lawful power, not a mandate, and the Church has not defined the point.can. 750–751Read the analysis
- The SSPX is right that excommunications aren’t infallible. Its Slipyj precedent is weaker than it soundsJames Vogel, the SSPX’s communications director, told LifeSiteNews the 2026 excommunications are grave but not infallible, and pointed to three bishops Cardinal Josyf Slipyj consecrated without papal approval in 1977. Both statements check out; the precedent differs in ways that matter.can. 749can. 1353Read the analysis
- Cardinal Tagle is dean for five renewable years, not “during his lifetime”LifeSiteNews says Leo XIV appointed Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle dean of the College of Cardinals, to help coordinate any papal transition during his lifetime. The cardinal bishops elected him and the Pope approved; the term is five years, renewable.can. 352Read the analysis
- "A bishop admitting synodality has failed"? What Bishop Mutsaerts' advice does and doesn't meanLifeSiteNews presents Bishop Rob Mutsaerts' advice to change parishes, and his criticism of synodality, as a bishop "admitting synodality has failed". Catholics are free to worship in another parish; the criticism is one auxiliary bishop's long-held view, not an admission by the Church.can. 518can. 1248 §1Read the analysis