chooselifealways wrote:http://catholicreformation.yuku.com/reply/14915#reply-14915
Budge2 wrote:Cited source, please?
How on earth can anyone think Benedict CLEANED HOUSE, when he is the one who issued the "hide the sex abusers" under *pontifical secret* command in 2001?
The SMOKING GUN LETTER BY RATZ--HIDE THE SEX ABUSE! |
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[Categories: Roman Catholic Church Institutions]
In (The beliefs and practices of a Catholic Church) Catholicism, the pontifical secret is a code of confidentiality applied to some confidential knowledge within the Church. Breaching the pontifical secret carries penalties including the threat of excommunication. In 1974 the Vatican issued Secreta continere, which outlines ten areas in which pontifical secrecy can apply. They range from appointments of bishops to Vatican investigations of theologians and other church personnel to the proceedings at (Click link for more info and facts about papal conclave) papal conclaves (*).
Example: The Vatican document, Crimen sollicitationis authored by (Click link for more info and facts about Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani) Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, then head of the now defunct Supreme and Holy Congregation of the Holy Office, was issued in 1962, covered by the Pontifical secret, with instructions on the first page of the 39-page document directing that it be stored uncatalogued in the secret archives of each diocese. The secret document an instruction manual for all patriarchs, archbishops, bishops and other diocesan ordinaries, dealt with the reform of an abuse, establishing a canonical procedure for cases in which priests were accused of abusing the sacrament of penance to sexually proposition penitents, thus its title "Crime of Solicitation."
Example: On May 18, 2001, Cardinal (Click link for more info and facts about Joseph Ratzinger) Joseph Ratzinger (at that time prefect for the (Click link for more info and facts about Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) sent a letter to all Catholic Bishops declaring that the Church's investigations into claims of child sex abuse claims were subject to the pontifical secret and not to be reported to law enforcement. {THE ABOVE LETTER}

