Pope expands sex abuse law, reaffirms adults can be victims
Source: AP
By NICOLE WINFIELD 36 minutes ago
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday updated a 2019 church law aimed at holding senior churchmen accountable for covering up cases of sex abuse, expanding it to cover lay Catholic leaders and reaffirming that vulnerable adults can also be victims of abuse when they are unable to consent.
Francis reaffirmed and made permanent the temporary provisions of the 2019 law that were passed in a moment of crisis for the Vatican and Catholic hierarchy. That law had been praised at the time for laying out precise mechanisms to investigate complicit bishops and religious superiors, but its implementation has been uneven and the Vatican has been criticized by abuse survivors for continued lack of transparency about the cases.
The new rules conform to other changes in the Catholic Church’s handling of abuse that have been issued since then. Most significantly, they are expanded to cover leaders of Vatican-approved associations headed by lay leaders, not just clerics. That is a response to the many cases that have come to light in recent years of lay leaders abusing their authority to sexually exploit people under their spiritual care or authority.
They also reaffirm that even adults can be victims of predator priests, such as nuns or seminarians who are dependent on their bishops or superiors. Church law previously considered that only adults who “habitually” lack the use of reason can be considered victims alongside minors.
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Inculcation is the name of that game.
Depravity is the nature of the same.
May reason rule.
There's no easy way for a hardcore believer, when they "trust" in the schemes of the fools and the dreamers.
Giving up one's "suicidal sainthood" and stopping the ongoing promulgation of pain requires embracing doubt.
Those that embrace "faith" reject doubt thereby embracing falsehoods a.k.a. delusion.
Doubt is the "enemy" of 'faith because it brings one to "reason" thus rejecting the delusion of "faith"
This is why I say that doubt is my "savior", and reason is my "god".
This is also why my desire is for reason to rule.
------- ...in the name of "God" of course...-------
There's not a goddamned thing that's "godly" about it, unless of course it mirrors a "god' that's a malevolently barbaric genocidal pedophile.
Huh, well whaddaya know... Turns out it is "godly" as those shoes fit YAHWEH precisely.
May reason rule.