Abp. Burke calls for Vatican to give detailed norms to local bishops and tribunals for intitial abuse investigations
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ROME -- The Vatican should prepare a document giving local bishops and their tribunals a detailed procedure based on canon law for conducting their initial investigations of accusations of sexual abuse against a priest, said Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, head of the Vatican's supreme court.
Archbishop Burke is prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura and archbishop emeritus of St. Louis.
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