Penal Sanctions in the Church

The new book VI in its first canon summarises the dimension of the pastors’ ministry by recalling that, the one who presides in the church, must safeguard and promote the good of the same community and of the individual faithful, with pastoral charity, with the example of life, with advice and exhortation and, if necessary, also with the infliction or declaration of penalties, according to the precepts of the law.