REJECTED BY THE VATICAN In May 2012, the CBCP was supposed to finally adopt the guideline as a binding protocol for all the dioceses. The guideline was submitted to the Vatican for its review and approval.

In contrast, the Australian Bishops’ Conference, in its own guideline responding to complaints of abuse of Church personnel, was more direct in dealing with child abusers and sexual cases of criminal nature,

WHAT ABOUT VICTIMS OF ABUSE? The guideline was criticized from within and outside the Church, particularly on how it views victims of clerical sexual abuse. In a paper published in Asian Horizons, a

QUOTA SYSTEM It took four more years before the CBCP finally sat down to come up with a guideline on clerical sexual misconduct. This underwent several changes. In 2002, a head committee tasked to prepare

PASTORAL GUIDELINE On September 1, 2003, the CBCP issued the “Pastoral Guideline on Sexual Abuses and Misconduct by the Clergy,” listing the protocol that bishops should follow and observe in dealing with

This code of omerta that pervades a macho Church has spawned a “culture of silence and denial,” as Cruz describes it, where “the Church appears to be accepting with nonchalance cases of exposed aberrant

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It is important to address the child abuse of the catholic church

My blog point out the connection between the corrupt government of the Philippines and the catholic church, who abuse children.

In a nation shaped by faith, tradition, and an enduring reverence for the sacred, few institutions have stood as tall—or as untouchable—as the Catholic Church in the Philippines. For generations, it has