Hey zeus you ignorant turd, tell me something new.
It is already well documented that the Church does not defrock without the approximate equivalent of a court trial. It's kind of like the United States in regard. In the US even non citizen terrorists get a trial. So do priests.
One could argue that the unintended consequence of Church law added risk if the Bishop wasn't careful, but that's why the rule was eventually adjusted.
"Nothing in the new code prevented a bishop from exercising his discretion to restrict ministry or to assign a priest to a job where he was out of contact with the public," said Jeffrey Lena, the Vatican's attorney in the U.S.
"Is our criminal justice system broken because procedures are complex, or because they are designed to ensure that an innocent person is not wrongly convicted? Any mature criminal justice system - including the canonical system - has two duties: to punish the guilty and, of no less importance, to protect the innocent from mistaken prosecution. Sometimes, in a rush to judgment, people forget about the latter," Lena said.
"And of course, legal systems can always be improved. I think the consensus is that the implementation of SST and the procedures developed in its wake improved the canonical system," he said. |
