Changelog (21 Jul 2023)

Core Updates

• Update on the logic used to determine what references to use. There will be priority given to newer Church documents, as they tend to supersede the older ones. So far based on our test, this improves the quality of the references used in the answer.

New Documents Added (+42)

• In Praeclara Summorum
• Omnium in Mentem
• Competentias quasdam decernere
• Catechumenal Pathways for Married Life
• Decree Cum sanctissima on the liturgical celebration in honour of Saints in the forma extraordinaria of the Roman Rite (22 February 2020)
• Decree of Erection of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross
• Responses to questions concerning sterilization in Catholic hospitals – Quaecumque sterilizatio
• Declaration on procured abortion – Quaestio de abortu
• Norms for the procedure for the dissolution of marriage in favor of the faith
• Instruction on the dissolution of marriage in favor of the faith – Ut notum est
• Decree on the ecclesiastical burial of manifest sinners
• Circular letter on the ecclesiastical burial of the faithful in irregular matrimonial situations
• Declaration concerning the interpretation of the Norms regarding petitions for reducing priests to the lay state
• Pastoral Norms for the administration of general sacramental absolution – Sacramentum paenitentiae
• Declaration for safeguarding the belief in the mysteries of the Incarnation and of the Most Holy Trinity against some recent errors – Mysterium Filii Dei
• The Norms for doctrinal investigation – Ratio Agendi
• Norms for preparing petitions in diocesan or clerical religious Curias for reducing priests to the lay state with a dispensation from all the obligations arising from Sacred Orders
• Circular Letter to the Presidents of Episcopal Conferences regarding some sentences and errors arising from the interpretation of the decrees of the Second Vatican Council – Cum oecumenicum concilium
• Instruction on mixed marriages – Matrimonii sacramentum
• Ad Apostolorum principis
• Understanding the Liturgical Colors
• Letter to the Presidents of the Episcopal Conferences on the Rite of Institution of Catechists (3 December 2021)
• Notification concerning the worship for the pilgrimage of relics of the Blesseds (27 January 2016)
• Homiletic Directory (29 June 2014)
• Keynote Address by Card. Arinze, Prefect, at the Gateway Liturgical Conference (St. Louis - Missouri, 11 November 2006)
• Iconography and Liturgy
• Letter of the Pontifical Commission «Ecclesia Dei» to the Ordinaries of the Episcopal Conferences Concerned on the Faculties for the Celebration of Marriages of the Faithful of the Society Saint Pius X.
• To the participants in the General Chapter of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (30 January 2023)
• Fausto Appetente Die
• Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio
• Iniquis Afflictisque
• Divini Illius Magistri
• Ad Catholici Sacerdotii
• Editae Saepe
• Quod Multum Pastoralis Officii
• Longinqua
• Fraternal Life in Community
• Rescriptum ex audientia SS.MI
• Overview of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
• Satis Cognitum
• Misericordia et misera