155. Prescription in canonical penal law
The motive for prescription is the common good and to relieve the offender, who, over time, may have repented and even atoned for the offence.
The motive for prescription is the common good and to relieve the offender, who, over time, may have repented and even atoned for the offence.
No one is liable to a penalty who, when violating a law or precept has not completed the sixteenth year of age.
Penal law aims to restore justice, reform the offender and repair scandal
A judgement given without granting the accused a right to defence is ipso facto, null and cannot be remedied
Current canonical penal law does not include the denial of ecclesiastical funerals among any penal sanctions category. Censures such as excommunication and interdict only deprive one of receiving the sacraments, but never the sacramentals such as ecclesiastical funerals
The Church now makes ecclesiastical funerals easier for those in irregular marriage situations.
The right to ecclesiastical funerals is not tied to the reception or non-reception of other sacraments, and a faithful does not lose the right just because they are excluded from receiving a sacrament.
Jesus is the Prince of Peace and the model for all because he suppressed his ego by giving up his divine identity to become man and by refusing to fight back when humans threatened him.’
Church also promotes conflict prevention and controversy prevention through the establishment of institutions and ecclesiastical offices to administer sacraments and these institutions.
Psalm 85:10: Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed.