You are absolutely right.
The best solution to the clerical sex abuse would be to try accused priests in Church tribunals. Canon law has provisions for dealing with clerics who are accused of misconduct of any kind but it also protects the rights of the accused, which is something that the Dallas charter does not do.
Dear steadfastconservative,
"The best solution to the clerical sex abuse would be to try accused priests in Church tribunals."
In that the crimes committed are rightfully the province of the secular courts, the offenders should be tried there. The role for ecclesiastical courts might be to determine whether or not the offender should be dismissed from the clerical state.
It would have been nice if some of these bishops had been doing that all along. No one was stopping them.
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