''Sex Crimes and the Vatican'' (2006) is a

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(39 min) presented by the BBC program ''Panorama''. It aired on 1 October 2006.

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''Sex Crimes and the Vatican'' was filmed for the BBC's ''

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'' documentary series. It was directed by Sarah Macdonald, filmed by David Niblock and presented by Colm O'Gorman. The film charged that the

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used a secret document, ''

Crimen sollicitationis (Latin for ''On the Manner of Proceeding in Cases of the Crime of Solicitation'') is the title of a 1962 document ("instruction") of the Holy Office codifying procedures to be followed in cases of priests or bishops of the Catholic Church ac ...

'', to silence allegations of sexual abuse by priests and that ''Crimen sollicitationis'' was enforced for 20 years by

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before he became the Pope. ''Crimen sollicitationis'', subtitled "On the Manner of Proceeding in Cases of the Crime of Solicitation", is based on an earlier instruction of 1922 and was primarily concerned with dealing with the offense of sexual solicitation in Confession. Seventy of the seventy-four paragraphs dealt with establishing internal procedures for handling such cases in the curial court. The procedures having been established, they were then extended to included cases regarding homosexual conduct, any obscene act with preadolescent children, or animals, regardless if any of the prescribed activity had to do with the sacrament of penance. Many Catholic Bishops, priests and laity expressed anger at what they perceived as a clear bias against the church. They state that the program made no effort to highlight the efforts made by the church in recent years to combat sex abuse, particularly the efforts taken by the English and Welsh Catholic Church under the leaderships of both Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor and Vincent Cardinal Nichols,

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. These two cardinals are involved in abuser cover-up cases. Catholic Church abuse: Cardinal Vincent Nichols criticised over leadership
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Most Controversial Highlights in the 1962 Ottaviani Directive (English)

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