Pope Francis instates harsher penalties for priests who commit crimes such as sexual abuse, and the crime of female ordination.
Quote:Under the new code, a person who attempts to confer a sacred order on a woman, including priestly ordination or the diaconate, will be automatically excommunicated, as will be the woman.
In 2008, the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a decree stating that any bishop attempting to ordain a woman would incur automatic excommunication. In 2010 Pope Benedict XVI deemed the attempt to ordain a woman a “grave crime.”
Proponents of female ordination have interpreted this latest reform as a final blow to their cause.
https://religionnews.com/2021/06/01/pope...penal-law/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"