The Vatican responded that the document was not only widely misinterpreted, but moreover had been superseded by more recent guidelines in the 1960s and 1970s, and especially the 1983 Code of Canon Law.
Vatikan je odgovorio na to da ne samo da je dokument širom krivo protumačen, već da je čak nadomješten novijim smjernicama 1960-ih i 1970-ih, a pogotovo Zakonikom kanonskog prava 1983.