Potiphar's wife : the Vatican's secret and child sexual abuse /
The 'cover-up' of child sexual abuse by the Catholic Church has been occurring under the pontificate of six popes since 1922. For 1500 years, the Catholic Church accepted that clergy who sexually abused children deserved to be stripped of their status as priests and then imprisoned. A seri...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Hindmarsh, S. Aust. :
ATF Press,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The 'cover-up' of child sexual abuse by the Catholic Church has been occurring under the pontificate of six popes since 1922. For 1500 years, the Catholic Church accepted that clergy who sexually abused children deserved to be stripped of their status as priests and then imprisoned. A series of papal and Council decrees from the twelfth century required such priests to be dismissed from the priesthood, and then handed over to the civil authorities for further punishment. That all changed in 1922 when Pope Pius XI issued his decree Crimen Sollicitationis that created a de facto 'privilege of cle. |
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Notas: | Includes index. Includes indexes. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
ISBN: | 9781921511479 1921511478 9781921511486 1921511486 9781921511455 1921511451 9781921511462 192151146X |