Pope issues updated ‘Vos Estis’ text for handling abuse cases

Pope issues updated ‘Vos Estis’ text for handling abuse cases Archbishop Filippo Iannone, prefect of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts, speaks to reporters in the Vatican press office on March 25, after Pope Francis issued an updated text of Vos Estis Lux Mundi. (CNS photo/Cindy Wooden)

Pope Francis has updated the procedures for investigating allegations of sexual abuse or the cover up of abuse, specifying that the leaders of Vatican-recognised international Catholic lay associations and movements have the same responsibilities over their members that a bishop has over the priests of his diocese. The updated version of Vos Estis Lux Mundi…

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