WASHINGTON (DC)
Catholic News Service
February 5, 2019
By Kurt Jensen
Permanent solutions to the church’s sexual abuse crisis are going to require a greater level of lay participation and more legal muscle.
These were conclusions discussed at two events in Washington: a lawyers’ panel at the Catholic Information Center, sponsored by the Thomas More Society Jan. 31, and a media conference Feb. 2 following the Leadership Roundtable’s Catholic Partnership Summit Feb. 1-2.
The summit, which included three cardinals, university and college presidents and canon lawyers representing 43 dioceses, is expected to issue a document with recommendations in a couple of weeks.
The key term at both discussions was “emerging best practices” for identifying abusers and bringing them to justice.
Some of the participants in the summit spoke to the press in a teleconference afterward.
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