Vatican Issues Guidelines on Sex Abuse, Female Priests

Published July 17, 2010

Vatican issues guidelines on sex abuse, female priests
The new rules make no mention of the need for bishops to report clerical sex abuse to police, provide no canonical sanctions for bishops who cover up for abusers and do not include any “one-strike and you’re out” policy for pedophile priests as demanded by some victims.
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Girl priests on same level as child abuse
THE Vatican placed the ordination of women as Roman Catholic priests on the same level as child abuse in the eyes of the Church.
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Vatican speeds up sex abuse cases
Monsignor Charles Scicluna, the Vatican’s sex crimes prosecutor (left) and Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi talking to the media during a briefing to present a new set of norms.
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