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100% .. Pope Francis must place the long-term and systemic facilitation of child molestation ..

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Under questioning, the cardinal stated that, when a priest committed a sex crime, the cardinal said his practice was to seek the analysis of psychiatrists, clinicians and therapists in residential treatment centers before deciding whether a priest accused of sexually abusing a child should be returned to the pulpit.

In 1984, John Brendan McCormack became Secretary for Ministerial Personnel in the Archdiocese of Boston. In this position, McCormack was Cardinal Law's point person on hearing complaints against priests accused of sexual misconduct and removing some of them from active duty. He was later accused of taking too little action in handling John Geoghan, a Boston priest who allegedly molested over 130 children during his ministry.

In 1990, after receiving complaints from an alleged victim, he removed one priest from duty and sent him to treatment, only for the same priest to later serve as a hospital chaplain. He also wrote conciliatory letters to another priest accused of pedophilia and who once defended the North American Man/Boy Love Association, then failing to notify the diocese to which that priest was later transferred of the accusations made against him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_scandal_in_the_Catholic_archdiocese_of_Boston
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at least on par with such as questioning church doctrine, or standing
with it too strictly, or (wha??) participating in a trial as a jury member ..

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* Alfred Loisy, a French cleric associated with modernism.[citation needed]

* Leonard Feeney, a U.S. Jesuit priest who defended the strict interpretation of the Roman Catholic doctrine "outside the Church there is no salvation", arguing that baptism of blood and baptism of desire are unavailing.[citation needed] Feeney was later fully reconciled to the Church before his death.

* Father Romolo Murri, a leader of the Italian Catholic Democrats, for giving speeches against Papal policy

* All Catholics who participated in the trial of Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac, which included most of the jury members.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_excommunicated_by_the_Roman_Catholic_Church
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====== .. just three examples of Catholic excommunication in the 20th Century .. there was a rumor of lesser action ..


Consolation for Boston Catholics? (Updated)

Michael J. O'Loughlin | Mar 15, 2013


Cardinal Bernard Law in 2008.

Update: John Allen at National Catholic Reporter writes ..
http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/report-pope-exile-law-totally-false-vatican-says :

Reports that Pope Francis has ordered Cardinal Bernard Law to stay away from the Basilica of St. Mary Major and
is about to ship him off to a monastery are “completely and totally false,” according to a Vatican spokesperson.
http://michaeloloughlin.religionnews.com/2013/03/15/consolation-for-boston-catholics/

which fell flat .. hopefully, Pope Francis didn't follow that course as he has other action as
excommunication in mind .. agree, Pope Francis could and should give that 'law' the boot.