Can anyone at the Vatican agree on who’s a ‘vulnerable adult’?

Different definitions in different laws have made abuse reform inevitably incoherent

Following the latest wave of legal reforms aimed at bringing legal clarity and due process to the Church’s handling of sexual abuse and misconduct cases, Pope Francis has now approved legislation offering several competing definitions of who is a “vulnerable adult” and who is the equivalent of a minor in the Church’s criminal law. 

The differing definiti…