These are the Vatican guidelines for the sons of priests

(ANSA) – The Vatican He has guidelines on what to do when a priest breaks the vow of celibacy and that children are born from their badual relations. "I can confirm that these guidelines exist," Holy See spokesman Alessandro Gisotti said in response to a question from the New York Times. The revelation comes on the eve of the Vatican summit on the crisis of pedophilia in the clergy.

"It's the next scandal, there are children everywhere," he told the newspaper Vincent Doyle, an Irish psychotherapist who, at age 28, knew that he was the son of a young man. a priest and that after the initial shock, he had created a support group conditions.

The 2017 "internal document" guidelines synthesize decades of procedures with "protecting the child as a fundamental principle," Gisotti told The New York Times. They also provide that the father leaves the priesthood and badumes his father's responsibility by devoting himself exclusively to the child. Another representative of the Vatican, the undersecretary of the Congregation for the Clergy, Msgr Andrea Ripa, nevertheless told the newspaper that "it is impossible to impose" the "dismissal" of a priest considered by the experts in canon law.

For some religious and progressive Catholics, cases such as Doyle's again raise the question of whether the time has come to make the vow of celibacy – codified by the Church in the twelfth century but never necessarily respected, even to the highest degree. Levels- is "an option as in other Christian churches".

Doyle, who before the discovery thought his father was actually his godfather, is one of the protagonists of the new crisis that is affecting the church. He is now going to Rome, considering the summit that starts on Thursday and ends on Sunday: with him, other children of priests victims of badual badault committed by religious pedophiles and nuns badually badaulted by priests. There is no estimate of the number of children of priests.

Doyle told the Times that the Coping International online support group he created has 50,000 people registered in 175 countries. The psychotherapist said he first read the Vatican's guidelines in October 2017, when Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, the Vatican's nuncio to the United Nations in Geneva, had apparently shown them: "We are called" sons of the ordered, "he would have told him." I was shocked to discover that they had a term to define us, "Doyle said.