U.S. Catholic bishops revise guidelines against sex abuse

Source: CNN

Seattle, Washington (CNN) -- To fight child abuse by priests, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops revised its 2002 charter Thursday, the group said.

Child pornography is a crime against church law and the abuse of someone who is mentally disabled is equivalent to child abuse, the conference said in a statement on its revised Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.

The charter was created to battle the sexual abuse of minors by clerics, the conference said.

The revisions, passed during the bishops' general assembly in Seattle, coincide with new standards the Vatican issued in May regarding child abuse at the hands of Catholic leaders. The vote was 187-5, with four abstaining, the conference said.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/16/catholic.sex.abuse/index.html

You'd think child abuse might have at least gotten a mention in the Ten Commandments, but I guess God had "more important" things on his mind, like not working on the Sabbath and taking the Lord's name in vain. :eyes:

hated it when people mispronounced Yahweh.

Jesus said that it would be that it would be better that millstone be tied around their neck and cast into the depths of the sea rather than scandalize children.

He protected a notorious pedophile, the founder of the Legions of Christ for decades who was know to be a vicious pedophile who sexually abused both young boys and girls. When John Paul finally died Ratinger who was elected pope finally kicked the bastard out.

finds it necessary to make changes in its "charter", to protect children from the employees of that organization.
What a sad world we have become.

molestation by the Catholic clergy ever again. :sarcasm: