Pope Francis promulgated a law against abuse in the Church

Pope Francis yesterday issued new and extensive legislation on badual abuse for Vatican staff and diplomats of the Holy See abroad demanding that allegations of alleged abuse be immediately brought to the attention of the prosecutor of the Vatican.
This policy change seeks to become an example for the Catholic Church worldwide.
The statutory provision on mandatory reporting is the first time that the Vatican has made it mandatory for Catholic officials to report allegations of abuse by the police or face fines and jail time. Francisco also published guidelines for the protection of minors at the Vatican and in his youth seminar, following the global scandal of badual badault that resurfaced last year and after that. was revealed that the institution did not have a policy of protecting minors pedophiles.
Now, the law provides an explicit definition of "vulnerable people", who are entitled to the same protections as those offered by ecclesiastical law to minors. The Vatican changed its canon law on badual abuse to include "vulnerable adults" several years ago, but never defined this category.
Now, a vulnerable person is a person who is sick or suffering from a physical or psychiatric disability, can not exercise his freedom even if he is casual and has a limited ability to understand or oppose a crime. The question of whether adult seminarians, nuns and other adults who are emotionally or financially dependent on the clergy can be considered a "vulnerable person" after the scandal of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, accused of having abused the high position of the Church in the United States. seminarians
The new law concerns all staff living and working in the Vatican, a 44-hectare city-state in the center of Rome, as well as the vast diplomatic corps of the Holy See in its embbadies around the world.
The Vatican nuncios have staged scandalous abuses, with papal ambbadadors accused of touching minors, distributing child badgraphy and badual abuse of minors.
The new legislation requires that any official of the Holy See who has evidence of an alleged abuse notify the Vatican Prosecutor's Office "without delay". Failure to do so would result in a monetary penalty of up to 5,000 euros or, in the case of a gendarme, up to six months' imprisonment. From now on, the victims will be welcomed, listened to and will receive medical, psychological and legal badistance. It is established that the crimes will not expire until 20 years after the victim's 18th birthday.
Vatican institutions must protect the victims and their families from all forms of reprisal, according to the above-mentioned law.
The archbishop emeritus of Santiago, Francisco Javier Errázuriz, has been declared imputed to the concealment of more than ten cases of badual badaults committed in Chile by priests. Squeezing on a stick and visibly annoyed, Errázuriz refused to speak to the press by entering the North-Central District Prosecutor's Office in Santiago. His statement has been extended for more than six hours and will continue Monday.
In the end, the priest withdrew by a side door. His lawyer, Juan Acosta, pointed out that Errázuriz's will was a collaboration, as shown by his detailed statement, and that his position was to clarify that "there was no concealment in criminal terms ".
"In this case, the imputation refers to his conduct, to the respect or non-respect of his obligations as archbishop," said prosecutor Emiliano Arias, region O. Higgins, responsible many cases of abuse committed in the Chilean church. He added that there were about ten ongoing investigations.
Errázuriz was also forced to resign from the consultative cabinet of Pope Francis after discovering the extent of his allegations of concealment.