Crimen sollicitationis (Latin: the crime of soliciting) was a 1962 letter from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (or Holy Office) codifying procedures to be followed in cases of priests or bishops of the Catholic Church accused of having used the sacrament of Penance to make sexual advances to penitents.
Signed by Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, Secretary of the Holy Office, it was addressed to “all Patriarchs, Archbishops, Bishops and other Local Ordinaries, including those of Eastern Rite”. It gave specific instructions on how to carry out the rules in the Code of Canon Law:[1] on dealing with such cases, and directed that the same procedures be used when dealing with denunciations of homosexual, paedophile or zoophile behaviour by clerics. Dioceses were to use the instruction for their own guidance and keep it in their archives for confidential documents;[2] they were not to publish the instruction nor produce commentaries on it.[3]
Media accounts sometimes presented the instruction as not concerned principally with sexual solicitation in Confession, but with denunciations of paedophilia, and reported interpretations of the oath of secrecy about the conduct of the trial as a generic oath of secrecy, contrary to what the instruction itself stated.[4]
The 18 May 2001 document De delictis gravioribus updated Crimen sollicitationis in line with the 1983 Code of Canon Law, which had replaced the 1917 Code that was in force in 1962.
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I know all that. I also was the one who posted these documents on FR (to Dr. E no less). What I want is what I asked for from Dr. E.
I doubt she will post the evidence.
The 2001 document, written by Ratzinger, reiterates the need for secrecy for all involved. The point of his letter was to reaffirm the tenets of CS to all bishops.
That letter was one reason why victims charged Ratzinger with obstruction of justice and why he had to retreat under the protection of diplomatic immunity to avoid prosecution.
That is wrong. No, the first edition dates back to the pontificate of Pius XI (1922 - 1939). Then, with Blessed John XXIII, the Holy Office issued a new edition for the Council Fathers, but only two thousand copies were printed, which were not enough, and so distribution was postponed sine die. In any case, these were procedural norms to be followed in cases of solicitation during confession, and of other more serious sexually-motivated crimes such as the sexual abuse of minors.
A poor English translation of that text has led people to think that the Holy See imposed secrecy in order to hide the facts. But this was not so. Secrecy during the investigative phase served to protect the good name of all the people involved; first and foremost, the victims themselves, then the accused priests who have the right - as everyone does - to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. The Church does not like showcase justice. Norms on sexual abuse have never been understood as a ban on denouncing the crimes to the civil authorities.
Wikipedia is just a bulletin board that anybody can post to. It makes no claims of accuracy.