Church already mandates reporting of sex abuse to civil authorities
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WASHINGTON — The revised norms announced at the Vatican July 15 deal only with church law and so do not address bishops' obligations to report allegations of sexual abuse of a minor to civil authorities.
However, church documents approved by the U.S. bishops and on the Vatican website already contain such an obligation.
The U.S. bishops' 2002 "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People" states that dioceses and eparchies "are to report an allegation of sexual abuse of a person who is a minor to the public authorities."
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