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Canon Law

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Fuzzy Language

The bishops vote on confusing changes made earlier this month to their policy, adopted in June, dealing with clergy sex abuse.

Related Topics: Faiths, Catholic, Bishop, Canon Law, Policy, revised norms, revised policy, Sexual Abuse, victims groups, norm, canon laws, lay review

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Loose Canon Archive: July 2005

Charlotte Hays's daily weblog on religion, spirituality, and politics.

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Avoid Simplistic Judgments
About Church Leadership

Difficulties arise not because bishops have abused power, but because canon law limits their power to remove priests.

Related Topics: Faiths, Catholic, Bishop, Canon Law, Priest, due process, canonical process, Sexual Abuse, case, Young People, worst bishops, Law

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Under Vatican Ruling, Abortion Triggers Automatic Excommunication

Ignorance of the law, compulsion, or impaired faculties are allowable excuses in determining excommunication.

Related Topics: Faiths, Catholic, Abortion, Excommunication, latae sententiae, Pregnancy, latae sententiae excommunication, Canon Law, procured abortion, Fetus, permissive abortion laws, Law

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