Defrocking priests involved in pedophilia is not sufficient. They comitted criminal offences and need to be tried and punished accordingly. Canon Law just shields these priests from public prosecution. The Church (read Pope Benedict) could be judged to have subverted the course of justice. Tim de Mello
> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 12:13:45 -0500 > From: roland.fran...@ymail.com > To: goanet@lists.goanet.org > Subject: [Goanet] Defrocked Priests > > The recent news that Benedict has defrocked 387 priests in the past two years > is another shocking episode in the never-ending Catholic Church saga. > > The figure is much higher if you read the ABC news link shown below that > outlines the procedure that has allowed many more to slip through the cracks > and thus avoid the church's maximum punishment. > > Figures and incidents of such priests involved in sexual abuse and pedophilia > are not publicly known for Goa, while in Kerala abuse of nuns by priests has > been well reported and written about by some victims themselves. > > Are we Goans above such scandals or just too ashamed to expose them. > > http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=21576293 > > Roland. > > > > Sent from Samsung Mobile
