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(At Vatican I a century earlier there were 737 Council Fathers, mostly from Europe [31]). At Vatican II, some 250 bishops were native-born Asians and Africans, whereas at Vatican I, there were none at all. General Congregations (§3, 20, 33, 38–39, 52–63). The Council Fathers met in daily sittings – known as General Congregations – to ...
The meeting would occur at the Vatican from 21 to 24 February 2019, and would include religious superiors and all the presidents of the world's bishops' conferences. The Vatican said that the theme of the meeting would be "the protection of minors". [1] The summit was described as "unprecedented" and "the first of its kind". [21] [22] [23]
Law No. CCXCVII requiries Vatican City officials, including those in the Roman Curia, [17] and diplomatic personnel of the Holy See, such as the Apostolic Nuncios, to report sex abuse. [19] [20] [21] Failure to do so can result in a fine of up to 5,000 euros (about $5,600) or, in the case of a Vatican gendarme, up to six months in prison.
When, in application of the Second Vatican Council's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, [23] the Confirmation rite was revised in 1971, mention of this gesture was omitted. However, the French and Italian translations, indication that the bishop should accompany the words "Peace be with you" with "a friendly gesture" (French text) or "the sign ...
Fourth, it is said that mandatory celibacy distances priests from this experience of life, compromising their moral authority in the pastoral sphere, although its defenders argue that the Church's moral authority is rather enhanced by a life of total self-giving in imitation of Christ, a practical application of the Vatican II teaching that ...
One of the priests is accused of sexually abusing an altar boy who served at papal Masses in St. Peter’s Basilica. The other is accused of covering it up.
Clergy themselves have suggested their seminary training offered little to prepare them for a lifetime of celibate sexuality.. A report submitted to the General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in Rome in 1971, called The Role of the Church in the Causation, Treatment and Prevention of the Crisis in the Priesthood by Dr. Conrad Baars, a Roman Catholic psychiatrist, and based on a study of ...
The Vatican explicitly blames John Paul II, now a Catholic saint, in the scandal involving 90-year-old former cardinal who rose to the top of the Catholic Church in the U.S. after he was ordained ...