CANON LAW CHANGES SEEN A POSSIBILITY

From: The Boston Globe | Date: October 19, 2002| Author: Sacha Pfeiffer, GLOBE STAFF | Copyright information

Long before yesterday's cautious critique by the Vatican of the sex abuse policy approved by American bishops in June, canon law experts warned that the bishops' zero-tolerance policy against abusers was on a collision course with church law.

But yesterday, church law specialists had an optimistic new message: There is a way to avert the collision. And the solution may involve changes to canon law itself, not just to the Dallas policy.

As a commission of Vatican officials and US ...

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