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To: RegulatorCountry
"I'm capable of reading Latin. Post the original."

http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/crimenlatinfull.pdf

Please pay particular attention to paragraph 15, which obligates anyone with knowledge of a priest abusing the confessional for the purpose of solicitation to come forward, under pain of excommunication for failing to do so. This penalty is stipulated, the document says, "lest the offense remain occult and unpunished and always with inestimable detriment to souls."

60 posted on 04/12/2010 11:11:11 PM PDT by Natural Law
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To: Natural Law; RegulatorCountry
Yes, they are to come forward to the church, but not to civil authorities.

Get it? That's just more hiding of the crime.

66 posted on 04/12/2010 11:22:46 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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