Cardinal Dulles says Bishops’ abuse policy extreme

The nation’s pre-eminent Roman Catholic theologian, Cardinal Avery Dulles, called in a speech published yesterday for reconsideration of the “zero tolerance” policy toward sex abuse by priests that U.S. bishops adopted two years ago in Dallas.
In the speech, delivered to a Catholic group in Florida on May 27, Dulles described the Dallas policy as an “extreme response” to the sex-abuse scandal in the church. He predicted the Vatican will insist on revisions when the policy comes up for renewal in December.

I have no idea what group this was, but the speech is in the June 21 issue of America, which is not yet online.

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