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...they offer any changes, it will just be tweaking." But a canon-law expert close to the Vatican says some there perceive a "guillotine" attitude in the U.S. that sacrifices priests' rights to public opinion. It may not bode well that one of the most interested Vatican Cardinals is Dario Castrillon Hoyos, a papal contender who has hinted that the crisis is driven mostly by the American press...
What can the meeting accomplish? That may depend on who leads it. Many feel that the man to watch will be not the frail Pope but Dario Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos, who heads the church's powerful Congregation for the Clergy. But the conservative Pontiff made headlines Saturday, ordering Bishops to "diligently investigate accusations" against priests for breaking their vows of celibacy. "It's a mistake to underestimate him," says George Weigel, the Pope's biographer...
...What can the meeting accomplish? That may depend on who leads it. Many feel that the man to watch will be not the frail Pope but Dario Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos, who heads the church's powerful Congregation for the Clergy. But the conservative Pontiff made headlines Saturday, ordering Bishops to "diligently investigate accusations" against priests for breaking their vows of celibacy. "It's a mistake to underestimate him," says George Weigel, the Pope's biographer...
First, the institutional church has to acknowledge the magnitude of the damage. The Pope's cryptic paragraphs at the end of his Holy Thursday letter to priests hardly constituted a ringing mea culpa. At a stiff press conference afterward, Dario Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos, a contender for the next pontificate, short-circuited the avalanche of questions with a sample of Vatican stonewalling, sternly defending current policy. Citing the "serious and severe" internal rules the church has applied to pedophile priests, the Cardinal looked up from his text and asked what other institutions had such guidelines. "I would like to know...
...presentation of the Pope's letter Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Clergy, implied that, because of the cases in the U.S., the sex scandals were a problem only in English-speaking countries. But recent revelations in the Pope's homeland show that the problem is more widespread. In February, the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita published a story alleging that the Archbishop of Poznan, Father Juliusz Paetz, made a habit of sexually assaulting young clerics from the local seminary. According to the report, Paetz's behavior became so notorious that the rector of the seminary, Father...