[Petrosius]

According to Rome's Crimen Sollicitationis, all parties — victims, families, teachers, everyone — are sworn to absolute secrecy upon threat of excommunication. The “problem” is handled in-house and usually dismissed.

For the 110th time that I have corrected you on this:

1) Crimen Sollicitationis is about the crime of solicitation within the confessional, not about the abuse of minors per se;

2) the secrecy demanded is only about the investigation, no different than that involved in a grand jury investigation. Nothing in Crimen Sollicitationis forbids the reporting of the crime of abuse, rather than the Church investigation, to the police. This call for secrecy during the investigation is particularly important given the strict seal on Confessions;

3) victims are explicitly exempted from the threat of excommunication;

4) those found guilty solicitation within Confession are subject to the most severe penalties including dismissal from the clerical state;

5) abuse that occurred outside of Confession do not even come under the provisions of Crimen Sollicitationis.

But of course you knew all this because I have corrected you on many occasions before.

[Cronos]

Petro: For the 110th time that I have corrected you on this: -- and for the 110th time it will be ignored. The OPC cult doesn't want to help the children, doesn't want to hear the truth either in the Bible or outside. It just wants to spread it's message of hate as it got from its master.

[blue-duncan]

“1) Crimen Sollicitationis is about the crime of solicitation within the confessional, not about the abuse of minors per se;”

That’s not necessarily true. Title Five, “Crimen Passimum”, Sections 71-74 of the “INSTRUCTION, On the Manner of Proceeding in Causes involving the Crime of Solicitation” deals with acts of homosexuality, bestiality and sexual acts perpetrated or attempted in any way with pre-adolescent children of either sex. These acts are outside of the confessional, however the rules of “Crimen Sollicitationis” still apply including;

“13. The oath to maintain confidentiality must always be taken in these causes, also by the accusers or complainants and the witnesses. These persons, however, are subject to no censure, unless they were expressly warned of this in the proceedings of accusation, deposition or questioning.”