Philly trial reveals unreliability of religions' self-policing policies

Philly trial reveals unreliability of religions' self-policing policies

NCR

By Maureen Paul Turlish

Maureen Paul Turlish

I found out something significant about the Code of Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church as I sat inside Judge M. Teresa Sarmina's criminal courtroom in Philadelphia April 30 and listened to Msgr. Kevin Michael Quirk, a church canon lawyer from the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, W. Va.

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