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Vatican Sex Abuse Response

A Frock Does Not A Priest Make

Michele Somerville | Posted 09.27.2011 | Religion
Read More: Women's Ordination, SOA Watch, Roman Catholic Church, School of the Americas, Defrocking Priest, Maryknoll Order, Roy Bourgeois, Catholic Church, Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal, Women's Ordination Statement, Catholic Women Priests, Vatican Sex Abuse Response, Religion News
Michele Somerville

According to the Vatican's own doctrine, it is God who turns men into priests. "Defrocking" Father Roy Bourgeois will not render him any less a priest. The dress does not make the man a priest.

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Vatican To Brief Bishops, Religious Orders On Abuse

Posted 08.14.2011 | Religion
Read More: Catholic Church, Clergy Abuse, Clergy Abuse Guidelines, Vatican Abuse Brief, Monsignor Charles J. Scicluna, Clergy Sex Abuse, Catholic Abuse, Catholic Sex Abuse, Pontifical Gregorian University, Vatican Sex Abuse Response, Religion News

By Francis X. Rocca Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican will use online education and other methods to help the world's Catholic bis...

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