{"id":694,"date":"2011-05-17T11:46:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T15:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/?p=694"},"modified":"2011-05-17T11:46:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T15:46:29","slug":"vatican-sets-may-2012-deadline-for-guidelines-against-clergy-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/05\/vatican-sets-may-2012-deadline-for-guidelines-against-clergy-abuse.html","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Sets May 2012 Deadline for Guidelines Against Clergy Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican has ordered Catholic bishops around the world to create clear, coordinated procedures to stop clergy abuse &#8212; by May 2012.\u00a0The deadline is included in a new letter that the Vatican\u2019s Congregation for  the Doctrine of the Faith just sent out,\u00a0signed by Cardinal William Levada (formerly of Portland and San Francisco,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/06\/world\/europe\/06levada.html\">no stranger to the abuse scandal<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still too little, too late for victims and their advocates, however. Also, in related news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/world\/2011\/0513\/1224296840200.html\">Amnesty International has included the Vatican on its new list of human rights offenders,<\/a> based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2011\/03\/irish-catholics-celebrate-st-patricks-day-clergy-abuse.html\">abuse scandal in Ireland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out these links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/17\/world\/europe\/17vatican.html\">Vatican Tells Bishops to Set Clear Strategy Against Abuse<\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/17\/world\/europe\/17vatican.html\">Vatican Suggests Bishops Report Abuse to Police<\/a> (Associated Press)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/vatican-sets-may-2012-deadline-for-global-abuse-guidelines\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+catholicnewsagency%2Fdailynews+%28CNA+Daily+News%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Vatican sets May 2012 guideline for global abuse guidelines<\/a> (Catholic News Agency)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/2011\/05\/16\/top-vatican-expert-on-sexual-abuse-explains-new-catholic-guidelines\/\">Top Vatican expert on sexual abuse explains new Catholic guidelines<\/a> (Reuters FaithWorld)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritual-politics.org\/2011\/05\/who_watches_the_watchmen.html\">Who watches the watchmen?<\/a> (Mark Silk for Spiritual Politics)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts, and any other relevant links, in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to\u00a0<strong>subscribe to Belief Beat <\/strong><\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to <\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">follow Belief Beat on Twitter.<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican has ordered Catholic bishops around the world to create clear, coordinated procedures to stop clergy abuse &#8212; by May 2012.\u00a0The deadline is included in a new letter that the Vatican\u2019s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith just sent out,\u00a0signed by Cardinal William Levada (formerly of Portland and San Francisco,\u00a0no stranger to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[201,205,204,103,202,206,203,102,117,200,207,124],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cardinal-william-levada","tag-catholic-church","tag-child-abuse","tag-clergy-abuse","tag-clergy-sex-abuse","tag-irish-catholics","tag-pedophile-priests","tag-pope-benedict","tag-pope-john-paul-ii","tag-snap","tag-survivors-network-of-those-abused-by-priests","tag-vatican"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vatican Sets May 2012 Deadline for Guidelines Against Clergy Abuse  - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/05\/vatican-sets-may-2012-deadline-for-guidelines-against-clergy-abuse.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vatican Sets May 2012 Deadline for Guidelines Against Clergy Abuse  - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Vatican has ordered Catholic bishops around the world to create clear, coordinated procedures to stop clergy abuse &#8212; 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