2003 | CNN Exposes 1962 Vatican’s ‘Crimen Sollicitationis,” Ordering Secrecy Re: Sex Abuse

In TV News by PhilSaviano

August 2003 | CNN’s Anderson Cooper interviews SNAP’s Phil Saviano about the significance of the 1962 Vatican document. According to the National Catholic Reporter, “the 39-page document, titled in Latin Crimen Sollicitationis, issued by the Holy Office, established a procedure for canonical cases in which priests were accused of abusing the confessional to sexually proposition penitents.

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More details can be found in the National Catholic Reporter story linked here:
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/update/bn080703.htm

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