The modern liberalized Church rejects ritual corporal punishment of monks.

Evidence

So, too, the liberalized Church strongly disapproves of monks being whipped at the command of their abbot for penalizable faults—even when the penance has a ritual closure and a dramatic character. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 605

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the essay on ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ — both trace how a modern institution refashions its own disciplinary-imagery tradition into something ‘respectable.’