Before Dallas : the U.S. Bishops' response to clergy sexual abuse of children

Before Dallas : the U.S. Bishops' response to clergy sexual abuse of children / Nicholas P. Cafardi.

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

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