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"The document proposes ideas that seem to be in line with those proposed by the indignados, but really we are in line with the Magisterium of the church," said Bishop Mario Toso, secretary to the pontifical council, referring to the church's teaching authority.

This means that many cases are still covered by the "pontifical secret" and are not reported to secular authorities, perpetuating the cycle of abuse and preventing justice from being carried out.

More to the point, he seems utterly disconnected from the consequences of his instruction, as Cardinal Prefect in 2001 — just as the Boston Globe was laying bare the scandal — that priestly sex-abuse cases "are subject to the pontifical secret," a ruling that prompted bishops to quietly bring such matters to the Vatican, not to civil authorities.

Sometimes, personal, pontifical interventions can make a difference, as with Francis's confidential appeal for concessions to the Cuban and US authorities last summer.

See also Pontifical Gendarmerie.

"Pontifical," the cardinal testified.

French troops reestablished pontifical power in Rome.

On Sunday, she looked positively pontifical in Alaïa.

He also issued revisions of the breviary, missal, and pontifical.

Some 12,000 people found refuge in the pontifical villas.

Yet his pontifical reign was marked by controversy.