According to the book, the Vatican had knowledge of multiple
cases of sexual abuse committed by Maciel decades ago, but church authorities chose to do nothing about it.
The review found the Church acted in good faith and that it was right to acknowledge
cases of sexual abuse committed by the clergy.
Not exact matches
The book, «La Voluntad de no Saber» (Willing Not to be Aware), chronicles multiple
cases of sexual abuse of minors
committed by Marcial Maciel, a Mexican - born Roman Catholic priest who was influential at the Vatican.
It is not a «distraction,» however, but the hard and central fact that so many children and young people have been
abused because it is manifestly not the
case that «bishops and priests are totally
committed to the fullness
of Catholic truth on matters
of sexual morality.»
Generally speaking, termination
of parental rights if fairly rare, and only imposed in the most extreme
cases, for example, where a parent has subjected a child to severe
abuse, including abandonment, torture, chronic
abuse, or
sexual abuse, or has
committed similar acts against the other parent.