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Earlier yesterday, a Vatican official claimed in an interview that reporting clerical abusers to the police would breach their human rights.
They will hear, for example, that instead of reporting clerical abusers to the police, the Vatican deals with them "under canon law", which demands "utmost 'pontifical' secrecy", "moving them to parishes and other countries and letting them off with admonitions and unenforceable 'penances'".
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That the Salesians would report clerical abuse in Massachusetts, where Father Nugent had also worked, when and if the state passed a law requiring it.
Saunders has also been critical of the church's handling of another case in Missouri, where Bishop Robert Finn has remained in power even after he was convicted of failing to report clerical child sex abuse.
Ostensibly it is a fine suspense drama about how Boston Globe reporters investigated and reported on clerical sexual abuses.
The Catholic Church is telling newly appointed bishops it is "not necessarily" their duty to report accusations of clerical child abuse to authorities.
The Catholic church is telling newly appointed bishops that it is "not necessarily" their duty to report accusations of clerical child abuse and that only victims or their families should make the decision to report abuse to police.
As the story broke so did the news that the Catholic church had been running training courses for new bishops where they were told it was "not necessarily" their duty to report accusations of clerical child abuse to the police.
According to Yale's payroll figures, two-thirds of the 2,900 unionized clerical workers are reporting to work.
Most people assumed the isolated reports of clerical sexual abuse of children were just that – isolated.
First, Schönborn accused the dean of the college of cardinals and former Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, of "massively wronging the victims" by dismissing reports of clerical sexual abuse as "petty gossip".
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