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I just learned this from a facebook post. St. Basil the Great recommended this punishment for clerical sexual abusers.
“Any cleric or monk who seduces young men or boys, or who is apprehended in kissing or in any shameful situation, shall be publically flogged and shall lose his clerical tonsure. Thus shorn, he shall be disgraced by spitting into his face, bound in iron chains, wasted by six months of close confinement, and for three days each week put on barley bread given him toward evening. Following this period, he shall spend a further six months living in a small segregated courtyard in the custody of a spiritual elder, kept busy with manual labor and prayer, subjugated to vigils and prayers, forced to walk at all times in the company of two spiritual brothers, never again allowed to associate with young men for purposes of improper conversation or advice,”
Here's an old article from 2007 that talks about the long history of sexual abuse, known by the Church authorities for centuries.
Here's an article by Father Berg at First Things where he very clearly and articulately maps out a way to handle how to prevent this culture of sinful complicity and create a way for necessary oversight. God bless Father Thomas Berg!
I just learned this from a facebook post. St. Basil the Great recommended this punishment for clerical sexual abusers.
“Any cleric or monk who seduces young men or boys, or who is apprehended in kissing or in any shameful situation, shall be publically flogged and shall lose his clerical tonsure. Thus shorn, he shall be disgraced by spitting into his face, bound in iron chains, wasted by six months of close confinement, and for three days each week put on barley bread given him toward evening. Following this period, he shall spend a further six months living in a small segregated courtyard in the custody of a spiritual elder, kept busy with manual labor and prayer, subjugated to vigils and prayers, forced to walk at all times in the company of two spiritual brothers, never again allowed to associate with young men for purposes of improper conversation or advice,”
Here's an old article from 2007 that talks about the long history of sexual abuse, known by the Church authorities for centuries.
Here's an article by Father Berg at First Things where he very clearly and articulately maps out a way to handle how to prevent this culture of sinful complicity and create a way for necessary oversight. God bless Father Thomas Berg!
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