Sexual abuse of minors and criminal canon law
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In recent decades, the Catholic Church has experienced the crisis of sexual abuse of minors by clergy. The press played an important role in denouncing and publicizing these crimes. But the press does not always explain correctly the procedures that the Church has been establishing to better combat this plague. This is the purpose of this article. Explain the canonical legislative reforms that the Church has introduced in the last 20 years, not forgetting previous times. Given the breadth of the subject, our purpose will be limited. We will try to answer mainly two questions: what exactly constitutes the crime of child abuse by members of the clergy (3)? What constitutes, in these cases, a cover-up crime (4)? We will also deal with other related issues, such as the secret linked to these causes, the prescription or the concept of «notitia de delicto» (5), starting with some basic questions of criminal canon law (2)
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