ForgotPassword?
Sign Up
Search this Topic:
Forum Jump
Posts: 1197
Oct 3 06 4:39 PM
Quote:On the programme Colm O'Gorman said "the man in charge of enforcing it for 20 years was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the man made Pope last year".Last night he said the central thesis of the programme was based on a conclusion of the Ferns Report, published last October and unreservedly accepted by then Apostolic Administrator of Ferns diocese, Bishop Eamonn Walsh.Page 15 of the Ferns Report observed of Crimen Sollicitationis, "it is of interest to the inquiry as it also specifically dealt with how priests who abused children were to be handled and imposed a high degree of secrecy on all church officials involved in such cases. The penalty for breach of this secrecy was automatic excommunication. Even witnesses and complainants could be excommunicated if they broke the oath of secrecy".Noting the 1962 document did not deal just with the confessional, Colm O'Gorman said other elements in it concerned "external obscene acts with minors" as well as priests and bestiality. "Animals don't go to confession. It's about time the church stopped trying to spin these issues," he said. The Vatican had also ignored three written requests from Panorama to put forward a spokesman for the programme, he said
Share This