Curia Bishop Criticises Benedict XVI and Vatican’s Decree Justice
In this note, he complained about an excess of presumption of innocence in the Church’s handling of sexual abuses because the rights of the accused were guaranteed until sentencing.
However, Sciacca defends these guaranties on JusVitaePensiero.mediabiblos.it writing that without them the legal order ceases to be such.
Among them, he lists the presumption of innocence, the right of defence, the non-retroactivity of positive penal law, the need for reaching moral certainty before issuing convictions, and prescription.
He points out that this is the opposite of the hasty convictions by administrative decree issued in recent years by the Holy See against bishops and cardinals [McCarrick].
