DEAL HUDSON SPEAKS WITH LIFESITE ABOUT USCCB DRAFT DOCUMENT ON SEXUAL ABUSE

– Says the document does not address core issues of the scandals – dissent and homosexuality – Many of the high-level Curia officials in Rome think there really is no scandal.  NEW YORK, June 6, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Tuesday the U.S. Catholic Bishops released a draft “Charter” containing “a series of steps aimed at the protection of children and young people” in church ministries and institutions.  St. Paul and Minneapolis Archbishop Harry J. Flynn, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Bishops’ Conference presented the document entitled “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.”  The draft has been in preparation since early March. It is the work of the Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The draft Charter will be voted on at the meeting of the full body of Catholic bishops to be held in Dallas, Texas, June 13-15. It will be subject to the Conference’s usual process of amendment before and during the meeting and could emerge “substantially revised.”  For an inside opinion on the document, LifeSite spoke with Crisis magazine editor Deal Hudson, who has recently returned from Rome after speaking to Vatican officials about the sexual abuse scandal in the United States.  For the rest of the important LifeSite special report see:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2002/June/020606a.html