“although he should advise the guilty to surrender to police.”
And the results of that policy are now plain for all to see. It’s a failure most complete.
If priests are willing to go to prison as accessories after the fact I’m okay with that. Church policy does not outweigh criminal law. Toss them into cells next to the pedophile monsters they protected.
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The Church will not use violence against the state, even though the reverse is not true. The Church complies with the civil law when she finds it possible. Otherwise, the Church ignores the civil law, criminal or any other, and calls the faithful to disobedience.