Interview with Rev. John Paul Kimes on the CDF's Recent Vademecum

The recent Vademecum released by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has been much read and discussed in the latter half of July 2020. We asked an expert to give us some initial insights into the document. John Paul Kimes is a priest of the Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles and an Associate Professor of the Practice at Notre Dame Law School. For more than a decade he served as an Official of the Discipline Section of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He has taught the norms of Sacramentorum sanctitatis tutela and the praxis of the CDF for nearly a decade and has multiple publications on the modifications made to SST, various aspects of the delicts described therein, the praxis of the CDF in cases of sexual abuse of minors and, most recently, the jurisprudence of the College for recourses instituted by Pope Francis in 2014 and that of the Supreme Apostolic Tribunal of the CDF.