Archbishop Wuerl of Washington: upgrading of punishment is not a sign of disrespect towards women
Topic: delicta graviora
Vatican makes it easier to punish abusive priests
Posted on Thursday, 15 July 2010
New norms also strengthen penalty for attempting to ordain women as clergy
Vatican to strengthen child abuse norms
Posted on Friday, 9 July 2010
Revisions will also add the attempted ordination of women to list of most serious crimes against Church law
To the outside world, the Vatican has lumped together child abuse and the ordination of women
There is a great deal of good in these new norms. If only the Vatican had issued two separate documents