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	Vatican to Issue New Rules against Priest Child Abuse, Ordination of Women Los Angeles Times July 14, 2010 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-vatican-priest-abuse,0,7797064.story The Vatican is expected to announce new rules aimed at preventing clergy from abusing children and against the ordination of women as priests. It will now be a serious crime against the Roman Catholic Church to ordain women, , a source close to the Vatican told CNN Wednesday. Also, the church will release new rules on sex abuse of children aimed more at firming up existing practices than announcing new rules, said the source, who asked not to be named because the regulations were still under discussion before being made public. The Vatican will add the possession of child pornography to the list of most serious crimes, declare the abuse of any mentally retarded person to be as bad as the abuse of children, and double the statute of limitations on the Vatican's own prosecution of suspected abuse.
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