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Bishops get secret guidelines on handling paedophilia cases
By Patsy McGarry, Religious Affairs Correspondent
Under the guidelines Catholic bishops and heads of religious orders
worldwide will be required to report sex-abuse cases allegedly
involving priests or religious to the Congregation for the Doctrine
of the Faith in Rome. It will then decide whether a tribunal of
clergy will be set up locally to investigate the case or whether it
should be addressed in Rome.
The guidelines,which do not indicate whether local civil authorities
should be informed about relevant cases, impose strict secrecy and
establish a 10-year statute of limitations for such cases, with
effect from the alleged victim's 18th birthday. They also stipulate
that cases must be heard before a tribunal of priests. Among the
penalties they can impose is expulsion from the priesthood.
Pope John Paul issued the document under his personal authority last
spring, and this in turn was summarised in a six-page letter in Latin
sent to bishops and heads of religious orders last June by Cardinal
Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the
Faith.
Neither the original document nor the subsequent letter was made
public, but they appear (in Latin) in the Vatican's annual Acta
Apostolicae Sedis (Acts of the Apostolic See) for 2001, the Holy
See's journal of record. A cover sheet with the letter sent to
bishops and the heads of religious orders by Cardinal Ratzinger asked
that its content be kept secret.
Yesterday spokesmen for the Irish Bishops' Episcopal Conference, for
Cardinal Desmond Connell, Archbishop of Dublin and a member of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and for the Conference of
Religious of Ireland (CORI) were unaware of the new guidelines.
However, it has since been confirmed that they were received last
June by Ireland's diocesan bishops.
In the letter Cardinal Ratzinger said that with the new guidelines
and the setting up of ecclesiastical courts in relevant circumstances
"we hope that not only will these serious crimes be avoided, but
above all that the holiness of the clergy and the faithful be
protected by the necessary sanctions and by the pastoral care offered
by the bishops and others responsible."
The Irish bishops stipulated that all such cases must be reported to
the Garda and that where children were involved the relevant health
authorities should also be informed. They also directed that in all
such cases the complainant should be advised by church authorities to
report the case to the local Garda and relevant health authorities.
Additional Reporting : Reuters
�The Irish Times
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