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Vatican revises its rules on clerical sex abuse (AP)

July 15th, 2010

Monsignor Charles Scicluna, the Vatican's sex crimes prosecutor, left, and Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi talk to the media during a briefing to present a new set of norms The Vatican issued to respond to the worldwide clerical abuse scandal, cracking down on priests who rape and molest minors and the mentally disabled, at the Vatican, Thursday, July 15, 2010. The norms extend from 10 to 20 years the statute of limitations on priestly abuse and also codify for the first time that possessing or distributing child pornography is a canonical crime. But the document made no mention of the need for bishops to report abuse to police and doesn't include any 'one-strike and you're out' policy as demanded by some victims' groups. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - The Vatican revised its in-house rules to deal with clerical sex abuse cases Thursday, targeting priests who molest the mentally disabled as well as children and doubling the…

Vatican admonishes Austrian cardinal for comments (AP)

June 28th, 2010

File - In this April 23, 2010 file photo, Belgium's Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard addresses the media in Brussels. The pope on Sunday, June 27, 2010 called the recent raids carried out by Belgian police investigating priestly sex abuse 'surprising and deplorable' and voiced his support for the Belgian bishops who were held during the searches. In a message of solidarity to the head of the Belgian bishops' conference, Pope Benedict XVI said justice must take its course but also asserted the right of the Catholic Church to investigate abuse alongside civil law enforcement authorities. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe, File)AP - The Vatican has admonished a leading cardinal for having publicly criticized the former Vatican No. 2 for his handling of clerical abuse cases.


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US Catholic church moving faster on abuse cases (AP)

April 13th, 2010

FILE - In this January 5, 2007 file photo, Archbishop Charles Chaput is speaks during an interview at the church's headquarters in Denver. Chaput acted swiftly suspending Rev. Melvin Thompson from Saint Thomas More Parish after decades-old child sex abuse allegations were presented against the priest. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, FILE)AP - The action against the priest was swift and public.


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