ROME
Gazzetta del Sud
Rome, March 28 – Italian bishops do not have the “legal obligation” to report cases of child-sex abuse by priests to the judicial authorities, according to guidelines released by the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI) Friday. The guidelines said, however, that bishops had a “moral duty to contribute to common good”. “Not having the role of a public official, the bishop does not have the legal obligation to report (cases) to the judicial authorities, aside from the moral duty to contribute to the common good,” the guidelines read on child-sex abuse cases.
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