Rev. Robert Kaslyn, professor, canon law, was quoted in a Catholic News Service story on crimes committed by bishops.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The 1983 Code of Canon Law did not anticipate crimes being committed by bishops that could result in their laicization, according to a canon law professor at The Catholic University of America.
Jesuit Father Robert Kaslyn, who has taught courses in laicization, said the Second Vatican Council has also made it more complicated to remove a bishop from the clerical state.
“It’s a mess,” Kaslyn told Catholic News Service in a Sept. 4 telephone interview. “It really is a 20th-century process that really didn’t exist beforehand. And that process was suddenly needed to adapt to the abuse crisis.”
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