Liber VI: Kerkelijk Strafrecht Sancties in de Kerk: De sanctionibus in ecclesia Historische Inleiding en het Wetboek van 1983, Strafwet en ... Lovaniense in Codicem Iuris Canonici)

The publication presents a commentary on Sanctions or Penalties in the Church, Book VI of the Pontifical Code of Canon Law from 1983 for the Roman Catholic church. The parallel rules of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches of 1990 are considered as well. After a historical introduction, the making of the penal law of the 1983 Code, its problems and later penal documents of the church are treated. Then starts the commentary, which follows the titles of Book VI. In the first part the rules are studied about punishment in general, penal law and precept, the liability of a Catholic to church punishment, the various penalties the church handles, their ways of application and their cessation. In the second part all the particular offences off the Code, under which heresy, sexual abuse and abortion, are explained. The last chapter concerns administrative, disciplinary sanctions, which do not constitute penalties. An extensive bibliography is included.RGW Huysmans is the author of 'Liber VI: Kerkelijk Strafrecht Sancties in de Kerk: De sanctionibus in ecclesia Historische Inleiding en het Wetboek van 1983, Strafwet en ... Lovaniense in Codicem Iuris Canonici)', published 2005 under ISBN 9789042915572 and ISBN 9042915579.