It is a world first.
The Church of France launches, this Monday, a national interdiocesan canonical criminal court (TPCN).
Composed of clerics and lay people, it will be responsible for trying priests and lay people for all possible offenses in the Church, except for child abuse, which are all tried in Rome within the framework of the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith. .
Mgr Joseph de Metz-Noblat, bishop of Langres, in charge of canonical questions for the episcopate, explains on the website of this institution that this court will be able to judge "
abuse of adults
" but also "
abuse of authority
", "
sectarian excesses
" without forgetting the "
embezzlement or financial manipulation
" that exists in the Church.
Judging offenses specific to Church law
The presentation file of the episcopate notes for its part: "
crimes against the faith and the unity of the Church, against the ecclesiastical authorities and the exercise of offices, against good reputation, the special obligations to which are bound clerics and religious as well as…
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