Is the Church offering a safe residential support effort to remove their priest from the community before they offend again?
In a case where a priest needs support in order not to re-offend, the Church has adopted the policy of removing them and leaving the priest to his own resources, which are greatly limited if any at all. This of course causes an enormous risk to the well-being of the priest who is trying to overcome his weakness because he is suddenly thrust in to a deep personal crisis. Abuse happens most often during personal crisis when an abuser is most vulnerable. Not to mention the obvious one who could be abused. There are places for priests who need support and a place to live separated from the situations that cause their temptation and fall. However, in the current environment in the Church very few bishops will offer this option to them, preferring rather to laicize them and thus be done with the “liability” of having to take care of the priests. 30. Can these “imposed” laicizations be appealed? I regret that I’ve forgotten most of that Canon Law from seminary during the last century. The Chu
