Two very different views of law brought together at Vatican
Sex abuse summit

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican-U.S. summit on clerical sex abuse will bring together two very different views of law and supervisory responsibility, said U.S. Cardinal J. Francis Stafford.
On one side is the U.S. experience of a legal system that has established broad liability for supervisory oversight, as seen in the many lawsuits that have held superiors and institutions responsible for the actions of individuals.
But much of the rest of the world uses a legal system that recognises a narrower margin of accountability by supervisors, Cardinal Stafford said in an interview April 18.
In these countries, there is less of a tendency to trace responsibility to higher levels.
"We have here two points of view that really have to come to an understanding with each other," said Cardinal Stafford, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity and former archbishop of Denver.

The Record, "Sex abuse summit," Perth, 25 April, 2002, p 12

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B: Fathers would make the best "Fathers"; how to select clergy; Mar 4 02
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#: Adelaide's Archbishop Wilson defends Vatican guidelines The Record Mar 14 02
@: Anglican sex sorrow not conscience move The West Australian Mar 19 02
@ Parishioners support, but Florida has two sex-abuse bishops in a row, Boston $15m to $30 m for Geoghan abuse The Record Mar 21 02
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@: Compensation in South Australian R.C. disabled-children bus-driver abuse case The Record Mar 28 02
@: Beg God for reawakening: Pope -- CNS reports abuse in France, Ireland, Poland $110m, and Oceania The Record Mar 28 02
@: Polish archbishop sneaking through tunnel to dormitory The West Australian Mar 30 02
@: U.S. priest abuse, abortion woman gets $2m payout West Australian Apr 3 02
@: Bishop resigns over Irish boy-sex cleric The West Australian Apr 3 02
@: Scandal lawyer busy on 3 continents The West Australian Apr 3 02
@: Parole for disgraced Test umpire Steve Randell, indecent to girls at Tasmanian Catholic school The West Australian Apr 4 02
@: Abuse priest suicides in U.S. The Sunday Times Perth Apr 7 02
@: Celibacy and Paedophilia, Rights Question James E. Biechler U.S.A., http://astro.ocis.temple.edu/~arcc/rights7.htm

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@: Survey on U.S. abuse show 66% disapprove of Church handling The Record Apr 11 02
@: Priest was evil one, says cover-up victim , Fr P.Shanley said he kept a promise to keep silent about cardinal abusing him in seminary, hierarchy conspiracy to allow Fr Shanley access to youth since 1967, Cardinal B.Law's secret Rome trip, and all 8 U.S. cardinals off to Rome, Victim's lives broken; The Weekend Australian, Roy Eccleston, April 20-21 2002, p 16
@: Force out Cardinal Law, U.S. bishops urge Pope; Law's secret talks with Pope followed by stance he will remain, ovation; The West Australian, Tuesday April 23 2002, p 23
@: "No place" - Pope's US sex abuse speech, text of 23 Apr 2002 speech to US cardinals gathered in Rome (leaving it to the US hierarchy!), CNN version
#: Pope says bishops' decisions 'wrong', CNN news, April 23, 2002 Posted: 1:46 PM EDT (1746 GMT), http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/04/23/pope.scandal/index.html
@: Not Good Enough, too many loopholes in Pope's speech and Anglican system; suggested letter to bishops of both Anglican and Catholic Churches, April 24 2002
@: Pope lays down sex abuse law; The West Australian, Thur Apr 25 2002, p 19
@: Sex abuse summit at Vatican brings together two very different views of law; The Record, Apr 25 2002, p 12

Clare Pascoe Henderson, a victim: http://www.clergyabuseaustralia.org
Broken Rites non-denominational support group for people who have been abused sexually, physically or emotionally in religious institutions: http://brokenrites.alphalink.com.au
Prof. Patrick Parkinson, a specialist in family law, child protection, and the law of Equity and Trusts: http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/staff/p_parkinson_pub.htm

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