Publication of Disciplinary Section documents for study purposes
09 February 2026
It is hereby announced that, for study purposes, some old documents relating to the Disciplinary Section of the Dicastery have been published in an online version, which can be consulted by accessing the appropriate section of the website.
The documents published are as follows:
- Instructio de modo procedendi in causis sollicitationis. Ad omnes Patriarchas, Archiepiscopos, Episcopos aliosque locorum Ordinarios «etiam Ritus Orientalis» (1962)
[Latin]
- Normae de gravioribus delictis Congregationis pro Doctrina Fidei reservatis (30 April 2001)
[Latin]
- Rescriptum ex audientia SS.mi: Rescriptum of the Holy Father John Paul II on the faculty to derogate from the terms of prescription in cases of graviora delicta (7 November 2002)
[Italian]
- Rescriptum ex audientia SS.mi: Rescriptum of the Holy Father John Paul II on the delegation to the Supreme Apostolic Tribunal of the CDF for cases of graviora delicta committed by Cardinals, Patriarchs, and Bishops, as well as by religious superiors and other clerics referred to in CIC can. 1405 and CCEO cann. 1060 and 1061 (19 February 2004)
[Italian]