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Catholic Register
Written by Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
OTTAWA – Several prominent Canadian Catholics have reacted with sadness and dismay to a scathing United Nations committee report on the Church’s handling of clerical sexual abuse.
The UN committee investigating the Holy See’s compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child also advised the Catholic Church to change Canon Law, abandon its teachings on abortion and contraception and to exchange teaching on the sexual complementarity of men and women in favour of gender equality.
Though the president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops welcomed some of the specific recommendations that will help the bishops with their planned revision of From Pain to Hope, its 20-year- old document on clerical sexual abuse, Archbishop Paul-André Durocher said the committee weakened its report by “venturing into areas in the moral teachings of the Church.” The committee also failed to note the progress the Church has made.
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