Crime of abuse is personal failure, not institutional, cardinal says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A cleric who sexually abuses a child and a bishop or religious superior who covers up that abuse are personally morally at fault, but the Catholic Church as an institution is not, said Cardinal Julián Herranz, retired president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts. In a letter published on the front page of the Vatican newspaper, the 91-year-old cardinal said that 'the errors, sins and sometimes even crimes of her members, including senior members of the hierarc
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