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Bishops in the RCC may finally be held accountable

6/10/2015

 
From NYT: Pope Creates Tribunal for Bishop Negligence in Child Sexual Abuse Cases By Elisabetta Povoledo and Laurie Goodstein
ROME — Roman Catholic bishops accused of covering up or failing to prevent the sexual abuse of children by priests will now be subject to judgment and discipline by a new Vatican tribunal, according to a plan approved on Wednesday by Pope Francis.

The decision is a measure that abuse victims have urged for years. The church has judicial procedures for judging priests accused of abuse, but until now bishops accused of negligence or cover-ups were almost never held accountable by the church itself. continue reading
This is good news.  It would have been even better news thirty years ago.

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