| The Dallas resolution made it much easier to defrock a priest for molesting a child. |
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| Journalists rarely understand the full power of the press, but one authority we don't have is the power to defrock priests. |
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| Because it is a state church, however, the Lutheran Church cannot defrock him. |
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| Even after he became pope, Ratzinger refused to defrock this monster priest or provide the evidence against him to the police. |
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| It has no power to send anybody to prison but it can be used to defrock a priest or excommunicate a lay-person. |
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| Critics observed that the Vatican was slow to punish and defrock priests who were known pedophiles. |
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| In the US in 1985, a group of American bishops wrote to Ratzinger begging him to defrock a priest called Father Stephen Kiesle, who had tied up and molested two young boys in a rectory. |
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| Last June, a Vatican tribunal ruled to defrock the former archbishop. |
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| Wesolowski is appealing the decision to defrock him and a final decision will be made in October. |
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| The revisions also allow bishops to defrock priests where evidence of sexual abuse is clear, without canonical trials, which can be lengthy and costly. |
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