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	Vatican to Post Guide for Abuse Norm Press Trust of India April 9, 2010 http://www.ptinews.com/news/603579_Vatican-to-post-guide-for-abuse-norms VATICAN CITY, Apr 9 (AP) The Vatican has launched a new transparency strategy to deal with the sex abuse crisis, planning to post a guide for lay people on the web to explain how it deals with abuse accusations against priests, The Associated Press has learned. It also announced that Pope Benedict XVI is willing to meet with more abuse victims as part of efforts to take part in the healing process. The "lay guide," obtained today outlines the canonical procedures that bishops follow when they receive accusations of abuse. The guide doesn't contain any information that isn't available to the public through a trip to a specialized religious library or a Vatican bookstore. But it puts various sources of canonical procedures together in a concise, easy-to-read fashion, without cumbersome canon law citations and Latin phrases. And it's going up on the web. The Vatican spokesman, Rev.
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