教皇フランシスコは2019年5月、虐待事件への対応を誤ったり、隠ぺいしたりする司教たちに厳しく対処するための自発教令「Vos estis lux mundi(あなた方は世の光)」を発出された。それ以来、バチカンは昨年一年だけで9人の司教たちを懲戒処分にした。最新の処分は、ヴロツワフの前大司教、マリアン・ゴレビエフスキーに対するもので、この 83歳の高位聖職者は、聖職者による未成年者の性的虐待事件に関し、適切な対処を怠った罪で有罪判決を受けた。
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Pope Francis and the members of the French Bishops’ Conference presidency: From left to right, Bishop Olivier Leborgne, Bishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort, Bishop Dominique Blanchet, and Fr Hugues de Woillemont. (Vatican Media)
また、性的虐待の被害者を未成年者だけでなく、「imperfect use of reason(理性の働きが不完全)」な人にも対象を広げ、加害者も、司祭叙階されていない修道者、一般信徒も罰則の対象となり得る、とした。さらに、犯罪の疑いがもたれる事案の報告を義務付け、司教の説明責任に関する規程も新たに設けられた。
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Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger of Albany, N.Y., second from left, listens to a speaker during a “Movement to Restore Trust” symposium at Canisius College Dec. 7, 2019, in Buffalo, N.Y. To the bishop’s right is clergy sexual abuse survivor Michael Whelan. In addition to heading the Albany Diocese, (Credit: CNS photo, via Movement to Restore Trust.)
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