Papal Decree Holds Bishops Accountable For Sexual Abuse WhatDoYouThink?
Pope Francis announced a decree requiring priests and nuns to report incidents of abuse or cover-ups to church authorities, saying “the crimes of sexual abuse offend Our Lord […] and harm the community of the faithful.
” What do“Finally, a pope who won’t stand for anything less than opaque and fully internal accountability.”“Big, sweeping changes aren’t going to happen overnight. You’d need absolute, universal authority over the Catholic Church for something like that.”“Shouldn’t we at least give denial and obfuscation another decade to see if that solves the problem?”
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