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Documentary About Pedophile Priests Shakes Up Poland

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Re: Documentary About Pedophile Priests Shakes Up Poland

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The documentary is very good and based on facts, and the Polish church never had and still does not have any means of getting rid of people such as the collaborators who have been implanted there by the old communist governments or child molesters who proliferate in this environment, having unrestricted access to children in schools and churches. They are simply moved from one chapel to another or, eventually, to hou…

> and the Polish church never had and still does not have any means of getting rid of people Why do you think so? I believe they can be excommunicated. There's a known process around it, even if rarely used.

Excommunication is used for people who repeatedly offend the church via some dogmatic means, not for people who commit crimes while staying inside its structures.

Re: Documentary About Pedophile Priests Shakes Up Poland

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> and the Polish church never had and still does not have any means of getting rid of people Why do you think so? I believe they can be excommunicated. There's a known process around it, even if rarely used.

Excommunication is used for people who repeatedly offend the church via some dogmatic means, not for people who commit crimes while staying inside its structures.

Wikipedia:

"A person may be ferendae sententiae (i.e., upon judicial review) excommunicated if he:

...

4. who breaks a penal law allowing excommunication that was enacted on local level, which the local authority, however, may only do with great caution and for grave offences (for Latin Catholics, can. 1318 CIC)."

I would expect molesting children to be grave enough.

Re: Documentary About Pedophile Priests Shakes Up Poland

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Excommunication is used for people who repeatedly offend the church via some dogmatic means, not for people who commit crimes while staying inside its structures.

Wikipedia: "A person may be ferendae sententiae (i.e., upon judicial review) excommunicated if he: ... 4. who breaks a penal law allowing excommunication that was enacted on local level, which the local authority, however, may only do with great caution and for grave offences (for Latin Catholics, can. 1318 CIC)." I would expect molesting children to be grave enough.

Is this rule even used at all?

Re: Documentary About Pedophile Priests Shakes Up Poland

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wikipedia: "A person may be ferendae sententiae (i.e., upon judicial review) excommunicated if he: ... 4. who breaks a penal law allowing excommunication that was enacted on local level, which the local authority, however, may only do with great caution and for grave offences (for Latin Catholics, can. 1318 CIC)." I would expect molesting children to be grave enough.

Is this rule even used at all?

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