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September 1, 2010. Germany's Catholic bishops have issued new rules on how to deal with cases of sexual abuse by priests. From now onwards the rules require that any case of suspected child abuse must be reported to the appropriate legal authorities. They will warn the police in any case, not only when the victims come forward requesting it.The German guidelines apply to priests, religious and lay people who work for the Church.Also, anyone involved the religious care of minors must submit a police certificat ROMEREPORTS.COM (View | Sex Abuse: Solutions) |
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July 15, 2010. The Vatican prosecutor for sex abuse cases has presented the new Church rules to combat sex abuse and to judge priests who have committed crimes more quickly. ROME REPORTS previewed this story last week. Msgr. Charles SciclunaPromoter of Justice (Vatican)“I think it gives the signal that we are very very serious in our commitment to promote safe environments and to offer an adequate response to abuse.”The new Vatican rules against sex abuse are a set of processes and sanctions exclus ROMEREPORTS.COM (View | Sex Abuse: Solutions) |
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July 14, 2010. The new Vatican rules against sex abuse are a set of processes and
sanctions exclusively internal to the Church. The rules are not
intended to replace state laws, which the Vatican has ordered to respect
as well.Accused priests must undergo two processes: one canonical, or
internal to the Church, and another with the state, where laws dictate.The
Church will now proceed internally against an accused priest up to 20
years after the victim's 18th birthday; the previous statute wa ROMEREPORTS.COM (View | Sex Abuse: Solutions) |
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10 July 2010 Austrian bishops have asked that all priests who have committed abuses
turn themselves in to authorities. They've also asked victims to name
their alleged abusers despite the pain caused by reopening wounds. “In
Austria there is no mandatory reporting. We comply with what the person
who has suffered sexual abuse wants,” said bishop Klaus Kung.In April the Austrian bishops launched a national commission to
investigate sex abuse allegations. The commiss ROMEREPORTS.COM (View | Sex Abuse: Solutions) |
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July 7, 2010. Soon the Vatican will publish new rules to handle sex abuse. The
revisions are largely a matter of consolidating norms that have been in
place for several years. However, there are some new things.The possession of child pornography by a priest will become a felony and
bishops should immediately inform Rome of the crime. The Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith can even decide to immediately remove a
priest. Additionally, the statute of limitations
will be extended for sex abus ROMEREPORTS.COM (View | Sex Abuse: Solutions) |
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June 28, 2010. The pope has sent a message of solidarity to Belgian bishops about
police raids of church offices last week, which he calls “surprising and
deplorable.”Police detained bishops for nine hours as they searched two Church
offices and the home of former archbishop Godfried Danneels. Police
inserted a microcamera into the tombs of two cardinals and confiscated
Church computers and documents. The pope's message
asks for Belgian officials to continue their investigation to clari ROMEREPORTS.COM (View | Sex Abuse: Solutions) |
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June 15, 2010. Facing the problem of sexual abuses committed by priests, the Pope has asked for clarity. That's what two pschologist-priests hope to find with the book, “The Church and Pedophilia: An Open Wound.”Fr. Hans Zollner Co-author, “The Church and Pedophilia: An Open Wound”“We wanted to know more about this problem and to see what psychologists and psychiatrists had to say. We got deeply into the issue and wrote this book.”Fr. Giovanni CucciCo-author, &ld ROMEREPORTS.COM (View | Sex Abuse: Solutions) |
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June 11, 2010. “Today we can see that it has nothing to do with love when conduct
unworthy of the priestly life is tolerated," said the Pope during
the closing of Year for Priests. He was referring to bishops who did not
defrock priests guilty of abuse. "Nor does it have to do with love if heresy is allowed to spread and
the faith twisted and chipped away, as if it were something that we
ourselves had invented.”About 15 thousands
priests attended. ROMEREPORTS.COM (View | Sex Abuse: Solutions) |
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June 11, 2010. During the closing of the Year for priests, pope Benedict XVI said that "in
this year of joy for the sacrament of the priesthood, the sins of
priests came to light – particularly the abuse of the little ones, in
which the priesthood, whose task is to manifest God's concern for our
good, turns into its very opposite.""We too insistently beg forgiveness from God and from the persons
involved, while promising to do everything possible to ensure that such
abuse will ROMEREPORTS.COM (View | Sex Abuse: Solutions) |
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June 10, 2010. Sex abuse: Pope prays for end of scandals.Benedict XVI"Celibacy is a great sign of faith,
of God's presence in the
world. Let us
ask the Lord to help us get rid of other scandals so that we can show
faith,
confidence and strength of our life in Christ, Jesus." ROMEREPORTS.COM (View | Sex Abuse: Solutions) |
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June 10, 2010. In front of four thousand priests, the Vatican's second highest
authority, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, said cases of sexual abuse
undermine the Church's credibility. But he also said that the pain
caused by this will bring a “spiritual renewal”.Card. Tarcisio BertoneVatican Secretary of State“In
this period we have had to carry the pain of infidelity, at times
grave, of some members of the clergy who have negatively influenced the
credibility of the Church. Bec ROMEREPORTS.COM (View | Sex Abuse: Solutions) |
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May 31, 2010. The Vatican has announced that the Apostolic Visitation to Ireland will
take place this fall and has named the 9 visitors who will lead the
charge. The visit, which the pope ordered and mentioned in his letter to
Irish Catholics, is part of an investigation aimed at eradicating
clerical sex abuse. The panel is made up of 5 archbishops and 4
religious.Pope Benedict XVI announced such a visit would take place in his
letter to Irish Catholics back in March, but had never mentioned ROMEREPORTS.COM (View | Sex Abuse: Solutions) |
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May 31, 2010. An internal investigation into Jesuit-run schools in Germany has cited 205 allegations of sexual abuse committed by priests.The allegations were made by predominately male victims and focus on 12
priests, six of whom are now deceased, from several schools and youth
facilities in Germany since the 1950s.The report was
commissioned in January after 25 students from a Jesuit-run school in
Berlin came forward alleging sexual abuse.Germany’s leading
Jesuit official, Father Stefan Dart ROMEREPORTS.COM (View | Sex Abuse: Solutions) |
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May 27, 2010 Young people from different nationalities who study in Rome will come together to pray for a solution and a stop to sex abuse committed by members of the clergy. The group prayer will take place at St. Peter’s Basilica on May 29th. The promoter of justice for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith who’s the Vatican’s prosecutor, Charles Scicluna will participate and reflect on the current situation. PVB/MCBN ROMEREPORTS.COM (View | Sex Abuse: Solutions) |
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May 27, 2010 Benedict XVI showed again the necessity of penance, forgiveness and justice to overcome the cases of sexual abuse committed by priests. It was during a meeting with Italian bishops.Benedict XVI“What gives rise to scandal must, for us, translate into a profound reminder of the need to re-learn penance and accept purification; to learn, on the one hand, forgiveness and, on the other, the need for justice.”The pope observed that the desire for a new evangelization in the Church “d ROMEREPORTS.COM (View | Sex Abuse: Solutions) |
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May 20, 2010. In a pastoral letter, Belgian bishops asked all victims of sexual abuse by priests for pardon. The bishops just returned from the ad limina visit in Rome, where they discussed the abuse issue at length with the pope and other Vatican officials.In the bishops’ statement, they acknowledged multiple reports of abuse and the resignation of a bishop who admitted his involvement in abuse. They said these abuses have caused “shock waves in the Church of Belgium” and “serio ROMEREPORTS.COM (View | Sex Abuse: Solutions) |
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May 11, 2010. As for the novelties we can discover in this message today, we may see that attacks against the Pope and the Church do not only come from outside; rather, the sufferings of the Church come from inside the Church, from the sin that exists in the Church. This was always common knowledge, but today we see it in a truly terrifying form: the greatest persecution of the Church does not come from external enemies, but is born of sin within the Church. Thus the Church has a profound need to relearn pena ROMEREPORTS.COM (View | Sex Abuse: Solutions) |
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May 6, 2010. Benedict XVI met with the president of Switzerland, Doris Leuthard in the Vatican. One of the issues was sex abuse. The pope told the president, youths should be protected and that pedophilia doesn’t only affect the Church but all of society.They also talked about the Swiss law that bans construction of minarets. The pope said religious freedom should exist in all of Europe. The president gave the pope a medieval book in German about the monastery of San Galo and a box of Swiss choco ROMEREPORTS.COM (View | Sex Abuse: Solutions) |
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May 6, 2010. May 6, 2010. One of the five bishops who investigated the Legion of Christ, Monsignor Ricardo Watty, bishop of Tepic, Mexico, says there maybe be a visit between some of Marcial Maciel’s abuse victims and the pope. Maciel was the founder of the Legionaries of Christ.Benedict XVI appointed Monsignor Watty and four other bishops, to investigate the Legion. They met with more than one thousand members of the Legion, along with bishops of where the Order is present and a number of people from ROMEREPORTS.COM (View | Sex Abuse: Solutions) |
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May 3, 2010. The pope will appoint a delegate and form a commission to study the constitutions of the Legionaries of Christ. The Vatican announced those measures to help the religious Order confront the crisis amid revelations about the life of its founder, Marcial Maciel.Benedict XVI first thanked victims for coming forward and reporting abuse by Maciel. The Vatican called Maciel’s actions “a life devoid of scruple and of genuine religious sentiment.” Reportedly, Maciel build up alibis and ROMEREPORTS.COM (View | Sex Abuse: Solutions) |
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