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Posted by Barbara Dorris on October 15, 2012
Apparently, Chaput has unilaterally revised the American bishops’ child sex abuse policy. For years, it officially was “one strike and you’re out.” Now, in Philly at least, it’s become “one strike and you’re in.” Chaput is putting Fr. Joseph DiGregorio back on the job, in part, because “no other complaints were reported.”
And on paper, that ten year old policy says nothing about credibly accused predator priests being restored to active ministry if a church shrink says he’s ok. But Chaput has evidently unilaterally made this change too. He’s putting DiGregorio on the job again because, in part, a “clinical evaluation” supposedly says the priest is no threat to children.
Finally, the church’s abuse policy mandates “openness and transparency” in child sex abuse cases. But Chaput won’t “explain how (Fr. DiGregorio) violated behavioral standards,” according to the Inquirer.
So in three ways, Chaput is violating the very church policy he and his brother bishops so often brag about.
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