Vatican Puts Abuse Rules Online to Quell Critics

[struggle4progress]

Source: Reuters via NYT

By REUTERS
Published: April 12, 2010
Filed at 11:58 a.m. ET

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican published an online guide on Monday to rules for handling sex abuse charges against priests ...

... the rules are not new ...

... bishops must report crimes to the police, saying "civil law concerning reporting of crimes to the appropriate authorities should always be followed" ...

The editor of Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano ... Giovanni Maria Vian ... predicted that "more cases will emerge ...

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/04/12/world/international-uk-vatican-abuse.html

[HereSince1628]

1. This is like remembering to zip-up

Hang it high and shake it dry Ratzass.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Free Vatican Clue for Republicons: Wide Stance Faux Diaper Sex Lesbian Bondage is naughty

No matter how twisted your so-called Republicon Family Values are, diaper sex does not yet have Vatican approval.

However, if you continue your vigorous lobbying efforts, you may get what you really really want.

[AngryOldDem]

3. Until they actually follow their own rules...

...this means squat.

[dipsydoodle]

4. Is it a Zynga game ?

Can you buy priests and sheds whatever and then little boys to put in them to abuse them ? :sarcasm:

[mulsh]

5. See, problem solved, and by the way tell the Beatles they're

forgiven.

[defendandprotect]

6. Have they withdrawn Ratzy document/instructions . . . ??? "Save the church" . . .???

[defendandprotect]

7. kick

[Indi Guy]

8. You'll find this interresting - from AP...

"Unlike the American norms, however, the Vatican guide contains no call for "zero tolerance" for priests who rape and molest children, and victims immediately criticized it as insufficient." -- http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_CHURCH_ABUSE?SITE=ORLAG&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[struggle4progress]

9. Vatican releases Church response procedure for sex abuse cases (Jurist Paper Chase, w/links)

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2010/04/vatican-releases-church-response.php

Guide to Understanding Basic CDF Procedures concerning Sexual Abuse Allegations
The applicable law is the Motu Proprio Sacramentorum sanctitatis tutela (MP SST) of 30 April 2001 together with the 1983 Code of Canon Law ... The local diocese investigates every allegation of sexual abuse of a minor by a cleric ... Civil law concerning reporting of crimes to the appropriate authorities should always be followed ... http://www.vatican.va/resources/resources_guide-CDF-procedures_en.html

SACRAMENTORUM SANCTITATIS TUTELA
POPE JOHN PAUL II
APOSTOLIC LETTER
GIVEN MOTU PROPRIO
... Art. 4
§ 1. Reservation to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is also extended to a delict against the sixth commandment of the Decalogue committed by a cleric with a minor below the age of eighteen years.
§ 2. One who has perpetrated the delict mentioned in § 1 is to be punished according to the gravity of the offense, not excluding dismissal or deposition ... http://www.bishop-accountability.org/resources/resource-files/churchdocs/SacramentorumAndNormaeEnglish.htm

[TankLV]

10. Way too little - WAY too late...