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Vatican Tribunal Now Overwhelmed by Clergy Abuse Cases
Crux ^ | 12/20/19 | Nicole Winfield

Posted on 12/22/2019 5:42:34 PM PST by marshmallow

ROME - The Vatican office responsible for processing clergy sex abuse complaints has seen a record 1,000 cases reported from around the world this year, including from countries it had not heard from before - suggesting that the worst may be yet to come in a crisis that has plagued the Catholic Church.

Nearly two decades after the Vatican assumed responsibility for reviewing all cases of abuse, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is today overwhelmed, struggling with a skeleton staff that hasn’t grown at pace to meet the four-fold increase in the number of cases arriving in 2019 compared to a decade ago.

“I know cloning is against Catholic teaching, but if I could actually clone my officials and have them work three shifts a day or work seven days a week,” they might make the necessary headway, said Monsignor John Kennedy, the head of the congregation’s discipline section, which processes the cases.

“We’re effectively seeing a tsunami of cases at the moment, particularly from countries where we never heard from (before),” Kennedy said, referring to allegations of abuse that occurred for the most part years or decades ago. Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Italy and Poland have joined the U.S. among the countries with the most cases arriving at the congregation, known as the CDF.

Kennedy spoke to The Associated Press and allowed an AP photographer and video journalists into the CDF’s inner chambers - the first time in the tribunal’s history that visual news media have been given access. Even the Vatican’s most secretive institution now feels the need to show some transparency as the church hierarchy seeks to rebuild trust with rank-and-file Catholics who have grown disillusioned with decades of clergy abuse and cover-up.

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events
KEYWORDS: romancatholic

1 posted on 12/22/2019 5:42:34 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow
They finally noticed.

Wait till the numbers on the scouts come to roost.

2 posted on 12/22/2019 5:45:23 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: marshmallow

What wonders Frances hath wrought.


3 posted on 12/22/2019 5:46:26 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.)
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To: marshmallow

This is what the current’Pope’ should be focusing on. Instead, he’s too busy pandering to the muzzies and dreaming of the downfall of Western civilization.


4 posted on 12/22/2019 6:01:36 PM PST by dougherty (I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo)
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To: marshmallow

Get the homosexuals out of the clergy and the problem will go away. Start a purge that will have the world screaming bloody murder and want to crucify everyone running the church. That’s what is supposed to happen if you’re actually serving God instead of the devil.


5 posted on 12/22/2019 6:04:31 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Yep


6 posted on 12/22/2019 8:56:45 PM PST by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Most of these crimes go back to Paul VI and “Saint” John Paul II, although some are more recent.


7 posted on 12/22/2019 9:34:55 PM PST by Clemenza
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