Leading canonists have warned proposals to reform Canon Law promoted by the Synod on Synodality would undermine Catholic doctrine and the Second Vatican Council.
On October 12, leading canon lawyers warned in a report published by the National Catholic Register that proposed reforms to the Code of Canon Law, emerging from the Synod on Synodality, could undermine the Church’s divine constitution. The proposals would introduce a separation of governing authority from Holy Orders by transferring powers traditionally reserved to the hierarchy to laypeople while expanding the scope of ecclesial infallibility beyond its traditional limits.
Commenting on proposals to allow laypeople – including women – to serve as sole judges in ecclesiastical trials that could impose excommunication or clerical laicization, the Dominican canonist Father Pius Pietrzyk stated: “The notion of a judicial college made up entirely of those without the power of orders is revolutionary, and the theological view that undergirds that approach would fundamentally undermine the nature of the Church.”
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