Arising from a desire to have a document about penal law written for non-experts, Penal Sanctions in the Church: User guide for Book VI of the Code of Canon Law has been published. The Dicastery for Legislative Texts offers this User Guide to the “Pastors and Superiors of the individual communities”, in the hope that it may be of help to them in the task, to which they are called by the ministry they carry out, of “judging delicts and imposing penalties, while respecting the rights of all those involved”, for the implementation of justice.