Vatican sex crimes prosecutor warns bishops

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Associated Press
Publication Date: 
Wed, 2012-02-08 16:10

Monsignor Charles Scicluna spoke Wednesday on the sidelines of a Vatican-backed symposium on clerical sex abuse that is designed to help bishops craft guidelines to protect children and keep pedophiles out of the priesthood.
Abuse victims have long denounced the lack of accountability of bishops who routinely moved abusive priests from parish to parish rather than report them to police or punish them internally.
Scicluna said doing so was “unacceptable” and that church law provides for sanctioning bishops who are negligent or malicious in doing their job.

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