What are the responsibilities of clergy who have fathered children?
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History shows that from the beginning of Church laws supposedly celibate men were occasionally fathering children. What does canon law require of the clergymen as their responsibility to the children they have fathered?
There are no specific canonical demands on a cleric toward a child he fathered outside marriage. Most penalties are for committing the sexual acts themselves. The cleric who fathers a child, however, has all the responsibilities toward the child that any father has. By natural and moral law he must provide for the child.
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Monday, November 19, 2012
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