Last Judgment by Giotto, 1306. (Public Domain)
“There is no other remedy,” said the bishop. “There is no other way.” The bishop was the Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts, Juan Ignacio Arrieta, and the thing for which there is no other remedy nor any other way about, is the Church’s current practice of conducting secret trials.
There’s good news and bad news in that.
He was speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, called to present the reform of the Church’s universal law governing penal sanctions – Book VI of the Code of Canon Law – accomplished by means of an Apostolic Constitution, Pascite gregem Dei(links to Latin text, as the English translation apparently isn’t ready yet, though the new version of Book VI is found here), in answer to a question from Crux’s Rome Bureau Chief, Ines San Martin.
