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To: SuziQ

There can be prosecutions within the Church for violations of canon law. Such trials are rare both in the Latin and Orthodox churches, though they do happen even nowdays.


71 posted on 11/11/2007 7:25:18 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: The_Reader_David

Of course, if the priest has done something wrong specifically regarding Church business, he can be prosecuted in a Church trial, but this abuse was in the secular criminal realm, so the Bishop would not have any authority over it.


74 posted on 11/11/2007 8:13:55 PM PST by SuziQ
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