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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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To: SuziQ

No, actually it is also a violation of the canons. The secular state may well prosecute the crime, and if the bishop learns of it from the victim, rather than the perpetrator in the context of a confession, he has a duty to turn the criminous clerk over to the state. He also has a duty to depose the priest, which is not something the state can do.


87 posted on 11/12/2007 4:28:36 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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