Harry
9 Jun 2015 / #91
Merged: Polish Episcopate pledges it is tackling paedophilia
This is good to see. But will the RCC here in Poland own up to its past mistakes, such as, to give just one example, deciding that a convicted (and self-confessed) paedophile rapist who had been deported from the USA for his crimes would be the ideal man to teach religious education to students the same age as his victim. We shall see (and hope). Anyway, at least this is progress.
Full article here. 100+ words cropped
thenews/1/9/Artykul/209637,Polish-Episcopate-pledges-it-is-tackling-paedophilia
This is good to see. But will the RCC here in Poland own up to its past mistakes, such as, to give just one example, deciding that a convicted (and self-confessed) paedophile rapist who had been deported from the USA for his crimes would be the ideal man to teach religious education to students the same age as his victim. We shall see (and hope). Anyway, at least this is progress.
Primate of Poland Archbishop Wojciech Polak took part in a conference on Tuesday concerning reforms on how the Church is dealing with child abuse within its ranks.
Recently enforced regulations on how the Church combats child abuse were presented at the conference, in two separate documents. Father Adam Żak, coordinator of the Conference of the Polish Episcopate's Department for the Protection of Children, said that the documentation "gives everyone - the public, believers, the clergy, but most of all victims - certainty regarding the law, the activities of the Church, and the principles upon which it is based."
Recently enforced regulations on how the Church combats child abuse were presented at the conference, in two separate documents. Father Adam Żak, coordinator of the Conference of the Polish Episcopate's Department for the Protection of Children, said that the documentation "gives everyone - the public, believers, the clergy, but most of all victims - certainty regarding the law, the activities of the Church, and the principles upon which it is based."
Full article here. 100+ words cropped
thenews/1/9/Artykul/209637,Polish-Episcopate-pledges-it-is-tackling-paedophilia