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Vatican suggests bishops report abuse to police
TweetPublished: Mon, May 16, 2011 @ 2:24 p.m.
VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican told bishops around the world today that it was important to cooperate with police in reporting priests who rape and molest children and said they should develop guidelines for preventing sex abuse by next May. But the suggestions in the letter from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith are vague and nonbinding and contain no enforcement mechanisms to ensure bishops actually draft the guidelines or follow them.
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So now that these guidelines from the pope have been handed down to all bishops:
--Will they report accusations against a predator priest to law enforcement now?
--Will bishops remove those accused priests from ministry now?
--Will they remove ALL priests from ministry who have been accused of sexually abusing a child now ?
--Will all bishops treat a victim who is reporting or has reported their abuse with respect, and stop ignoring them, and making them feel re-abused, and take the pope's advice to contact law enforcement and remove priest, employees, or religious from ministry now?
If these church officials do what the pope is suggesting, then we should be seeing an immediate surge of bishops removing accused clergy and making those names public.
Victims and concerned Catholics are waiting.....
Judy Jones, SNAP Midwest Associate Director, 636-433-2511
snapjudy@gmail.com
"Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests"
http://www.snapnetwork.org/