Before Dallas
Subtitle: the U.S. Bishops' response to clergy sexual abuse of children
By: Nicholas P. Cafardi.
Publisher: Paulist Press; Paulist Pr
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Mahwah, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780809105809
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Clergy -- United States -- Sexual behavior; Child sexual abuse by clergy -- United States; Clergy -- Sexual behavior
Table of contents: title: The canonical crime of the sexual abuse of a minor by a cleric : an historical synopsis; title: The New Testament; title: The fathers; title: The early councils; title: The middle ages; title: The corpus iuris canonici; title: Following the corpus; title: The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; title: The 1917 code; title: Between the codes; title: The 1983 code; title: The scope of the problem : an historical synopsis; title: The Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana, 1984; title: The Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1991; title: The Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, 1992; title: The Diocese of Dallas, Texas, 1997; title: The Archdiocese of Boston, Massachusetts, 2002; title: The national picture; title: The canonical landscape : the failure of the penal system; title: A description of the canonical penal process; title: The reasons why the canonical process was not used; title: A penal process (whether judicial or administrative) was not favored in the law; title: The penal process was not adequate to the problem; title: American canonists lacked training and expertise in the canonical penal process; title: The crimes were covered by prescription; title: The canonical penal process would have been useless; title: Since the priests mental defects made the ultimate; title: Penalty of dismissal from the clerical state unavailable; title: The rights of the accused priest, including his appeal rights, would trump the canonical penal process; title: The cooperation of the victim could not be counted on and was not sought; title: Civil lawyers strongly advised against a canonical; title: Penal process because of the discoverability of the acts; title: What did the bishops do?; title: Early reactions and the manual; title: A change in the law; title: The prior law; title: Suspension ex informata conscientia; title: Nonpenal restrictions; title: The administrative rescript of laicization; title: Requests for changes in the law; title: Proposals for a return to the prior law, in new garb; title: Proposals for an administrative nonpenal procedure of removal; title: The recommendation of the Joint Papal Commission; title: Changes in the law proposed by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops; title: Changes in the law approved by the Apostolic See; title: Continued action by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops; title: Statement of General Counsel, February 1988; title: Statement of the Administrative Committee, November 1989; title: Statement of the Office for Media Relations, February 1992; title: Early diocesan policies, 1986-91; title: The Chicago experience, 1991-92; title: The Canadian experience, 1989-92; title: Archbishop Pilarczyk's statement, June 1992; title: The National Conference of Catholic Bishops adoption; title: Of the Pilarczyk statement, November 1992; title: The think tank, 1992-93; title: The National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse, June 1993; title: Proposed guidelines on the assessment of clergy and religious for assignment, November 1993; title: The Bernardin accusation and its aftermath; title: The Ad Hoc Committee, 1994-96; title: The treatment option; title: Canon 1722 and administrative leave; title: Canon 1044 and psychic illness; title: The treatment centers; title: The treatment option; title: The relationship between dioceses and treatment centers; title: Reassignment after treatment; title: Canonical lessons to be learned; title: The bishops duty to investigate crimes; title: A means to vindicate rights; title: Tribunals for the penal process; title: The bishops authority in the diocese; title: The National Bishops Conferences; title: The bishops duty to foster the common good; title: Secrecy as a legal value; title: The bishops duty to determine assignments; title: A necessary change in the law.