Recently, the Court of Cassation ruled on the possibility of subjecting a cleric who had already been judged for the same facts before the canonical justice system to new criminal proceedings. The ruling, which is worthy of support in terms of its reasoning and final outcome, offers an opportunity to discuss other aspects of the case, from the possibility of a ban on double jeopardy to the hypothesis that the two judgments were conducted in parallel and, therefore, the two convictions were concurrent, to the limits of tolerability, by the secular system, to the execution of a confessional penalty.