{"id":952,"date":"2024-05-20T04:00:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T04:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/?p=952"},"modified":"2024-06-17T06:54:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T06:54:19","slug":"vos-estis-lux-mundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/?p=952","title":{"rendered":"Vos estis lux mundi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Highlights of Vos estis:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Vos estis explicitly defines clergy sexual abuse, and terms like \u201cminor\u201d, \u201cvulnerable adults\u201d and \u201cchild pornography\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It stipulates that avoiding or interfering with an investigation is an offense.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Everyone must follow local civil laws regarding the reporting of sexual abuse.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Every diocese must establish an easily accessible system for submitting reports.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>safety<\/strong>, <strong>confidentiality<\/strong> and <strong>integrity<\/strong> of allegations must be protected.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All clergy and religious are <strong>MANDATORY REPORTERS<\/strong>, and are required to provide a detailed report of any offense.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vos estis encourages <strong>all laypersons<\/strong> to report clerical sexual abuse and its <strong>cover-up to the competent ecclesiastical authorities<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Any person submitting a report is to be protected from <strong>retaliation<\/strong>, <strong>discrimination<\/strong>, and an <strong>obligation to remain silent<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Church authorities are required to provide <strong>support<\/strong>, <strong>assistance<\/strong>, and <strong>confidentiality<\/strong> to anyone claiming they have been harmed\/offended by the clergy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Vos-Estis-Lux-Mundi-2023.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Vos-Estis-Lux-Mundi-2023.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-70cfbc98-40fd-4850-895c-bc75a520cfff\" href=\"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Vos-Estis-Lux-Mundi-2023.pdf\">Vos-Estis-Lux-Mundi-2023<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Vos-Estis-Lux-Mundi-2023.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-70cfbc98-40fd-4850-895c-bc75a520cfff\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Cf.: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=vos+estis+lux+mundi%3A+what+does+the+new+law+do\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=vos+estis+lux+mundi%3A+what+does+the+new+law+do<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights of Vos estis: Cf.: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=vos+estis+lux+mundi%3A+what+does+the+new+law+do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-documents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1624,"href":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/1624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libmanandiocese.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}