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In truth, it was a disguisted Canon Lawyer, fed up with the CRAP who leaked the memo's to the plaintiffs in one of the trials.



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Any wonder why Father Tom Doyle is such a pain in the Vatican's side. . . he truly is a priest of integrity.


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. . . the document, Crimen Sollicitationis, was enforced for 20 years by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger before he became Pope.

The 39-page document, written in 1962, apparently instructed bishops how to deal with claims of child sex abuse. This includes an oath of secrecy, enforceable by excommunication, which critics claimed could hinder an outside investigation and prosecution.

Tom Doyle, a canon solicitor sacked from the Vatican after he criticised its handling of child abuse, interpreted the document for the BBC. He said it was an explicit written policy to cover up cases of child abuse that emphasised the total control of the Vatican and gave no mention to the victims.

But the Catholic Church said the document was not directly concerned with child abuse at all, but with the misuse of the confessional. It added that the second document, issued in 2001, clarified the law of the Church and did not hinder the investigation of allegations of child abuse.



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