Pope Francis has changed church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority, and to say that laypeople who hold church office can be sanctioned for similar sex crimes.
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Pope Francis has done the Catholic Church a great service in issuing some much needed changes in the Vatican's Code of Canon Law...
Intensified media coverage of paedophile priests and repeated complaints by victims of sexual abuse have prompted stronger scrutiny..
Pope Francis has changed church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority and..