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spiritual abuse

How ‘fruitful’ can the spiritual abuse working group be?

Ed. Condon
Oct 28, 2025
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Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez met with Pope Leo this month, to update the pope on the progress of a working group on the criminalization of spiritual abuse.

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, pictured Sept. 30, 2023. © Mazur/cbcew.org.uk.

Among other things, the cardinal told Pope Leo that the grou…

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