If a seminal notion formulated by paul has in time undergone further dogmatic development because of a polemical situation or a conciliar decision in the church , then that seminal notion must be recognized as such .
Papal decretals replaced conciliar canons as the routine and normative form of regulation , and this " new law " ( little changed prior to the new codes issued in 1917 and 1982 ) reached down uniformly into every diocese in the west .
