The Holy See: no limitation on the pedophile priests
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The Holy See responds to accusations of abuse cases in Germany and works to change the code of law In the past, Ratzinger soured canonical punishments for sex offenders. Father Lombardi: "Failed attempts to involve the Pope." Cracks in the choir until 1992 when he was the brother of the present Pontiff. The scandal behind the failure of bishops to govern
The line taken by Ratzinger in the face of cases of child abuse committed by priests and religious was "always that of the rigor." He said yesterday the Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi, while the 'public ministry of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has revealed that the Holy See could remove the terms of the requirement relating to child abuse, that doing so would still be prosecuted by the Church even if prescribed by the laws of the states.
The day after the allegations that have tried to involve Benedict XVI in the scandal brought to light the story of the pedophile priest moved from Essen to Munich to Monaco, the Vatican reply explaining how these cases are now dealt with according to the highest standards from its desired 'then Prefect of the former Holy Office, Cardinal Ratzinger. In an extensive interview in the newspaper Avvenire, revived by Vatican Radio and the Vatican press office, the promoter of justice of the Doctrine of the Faith, Charles J. Scicluna said that a team of eight people working on these cases under consideration. The biggest news concerns the time limitation, already high in 2001 to ten years, calcolati a partire dal compimento dei 18 anni d’età della vittima. «Prima del 1898 – ha detto Scicluna – quello della prescrizione dell’azione penale era un istituto estraneo al diritto canonico». La prassi «indica – ha continuato – che il termine di dieci anni non è adeguato a questo tipo di casi, sarebbe auspicabile un ritorno al sistema precedente dell’imprescrittibilità». Peraltro, ha aggiunto, già Papa Wojtyla aveva concesso all’ex Sant’Uffizio la facoltà di derogare dalla prescrizione caso per caso e questo continua ad avvenire.
Il promotore di giustizia ha quindi spiegato che nei Paesi in cui non vi sia l’obbligatorietà dell’azione penalty, however, we encourage the bishops "to address the victims to ask them to denounce" the priests guilty of abuse.
Scicluna spoke well of the phenomenon in Italy, which does not seem to have a "dramatic scale," even if "concern" as "a certain culture of silence that I still see too common in the Peninsula." And finally provided the data to understand how the issue is not as extensive as one would like to believe: from 2001 to 2010 were a total of 3000 reports of abuses committed in the last 50 years you get to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Of these, only 10% are cases of "true pedophile", which involves children under the age of 12, while for a 60% of cases it is ephebophilia, which is due to sexual attraction to boys over 12 years.
On Father Lombardi spoke German affairs, which in referring to cases of Regensburg and Monaco, said: "It's pretty clear that there are those who in recent days has tried, with some ferocity, elements for the Holy Father personally involved in issues abuse. For any objective observer, it is clear that these efforts have failed. " The line of Ratzinger, he added, was "always that of the rigor and consistency in dealing with the situation even more difficult."
The Holy See responds to accusations of abuse cases in Germany and works for change the code of canon law In the past, Ratzinger tougher punishments for sex offenders. Father Lombardi: "Failed attempts to involve the Pope." Cracks in the choir until 1992 when he was the brother of the present Pontiff. The scandal behind the failure of bishops to govern
From Germany meanwhile come new revelations. Sexual abuse in the boarding school and the school attended by "Domspatzen," the choir of Regensburg, they would have lasted until 1992, and therefore also in the years when the choir was directed by the Pope's brother, Georg Ratzinger.
I told the weekly Der Spiegel, a former choir member, Thomas Mayer, who claims to have suffered abuse by friends older than him, but also the home of a prefect, one of the teachers of the school, sexual intercourse took place between the singers. It should be remembered that no one has addressed allegations or suspicions launched Georg Ratzinger, who in recent days said they had never heard of sexual abuse during his three decades of leadership of the choir. The German weekly
has also collected statements that describe the former choir director of the short-tempered: yet at the end of the eighties would come to throw a chair against his unruly and singers were once so angry that he dropped his dentures from his mouth.
Antor
has also collected statements that describe the former choir director of the short-tempered: yet at the end of the eighties would come to throw a chair against his unruly and singers were once so angry that he dropped his dentures from his mouth.
Antor
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