Vatican Revises Clerical Sex Abuse Rules

by Sylvia Poggioli, NPR

The Vatican has issued a new set of rules in response to the child abuse scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church. The changes in church law include doubling the statute of limitations for disciplinary action against priests to 20 years, and widening the use of fast-track procedures used to defrock those found guilty of molesting minors and the mentally disabled.

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• Morning Edition, July 16, 2010