New Rules on Sex Abuse–What Will the Vatican Announce?

by Jimmy Akin on July 9, 2010

in Benedict XVI, Canon Law, Current Affairs

A few months ago, during the height of the latest abuse scandal, the Holy See created a new page on its website offering resources documenting the Church's response to the problem over the last number of years.

HERE'S THE PAGE.

One of the things they put on it was a brief, layman's guide to the procedures the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith uses in evaluating cases of priestly sexual abusers.

HERE'S THAT DOCUMENT.

One of the things that document did was say that there is a revision underway of the current regulations, which are set forth in a motu proprio called Sacramentorum sanctitatis tutela. Specifically, the document said:


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"We need a new pope. Let B16 resign & Arinze become pope."
Why? To give the media a fresh target for mudslinging? That would be nice of us, wouldn't it?

We need a new pope. Let B16 resign & Arinze become pope.

Is fine tuning law enough? Today's NY Times has another Cardinal (Danneels) looking insensitive to the issue...now in Belgium. This on top of the recent gay priest in Connecticut scandal and I do not have any idea anymore how many priests are gay...including those who saw these sins as not a big deal
http://tiny.cc/s9l6z
We need to hire an outside consultancy that examines this whole issue and Vatican governance rather than pretending that fiddling with canon laws is going to solve all things.

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