¿Cuándo el abuso es delito? Perspectiva canónico del abuso

Abstract

En el marco de las investigaciones acerca de los abusos de poder en el contexto eclesial, este artículo pone su foco de atención en la cuestión de la obediencia y trata de esclarecer si este voto, dentro de la vida consagrada, supone un factor que facilita dichos abusos. Para ello, se clarifican las definiciones de obediencia teologal y religiosa, se fundamentan teológicamente y se sacan consecuencias para una vivencia cabal de la relación autoridad-obediencia entre los consagrados.

After the entry into force of the new Book VI of the CIC, the law of the Church includes new crimes of sexual abuse, either by admitting as perpetrators people who are not clerics (the only possible authors of these crimes previously), ESTUDIOS ECLESIÁSTICOS, vol. 99, núm. 388, febrero 2024, 169-199, ISSN 0210-1610, ISSN-e 2605-5147 170 JOSÉ LUIS SÁNCHEZ-GIRÓN, ¿CUÁNDO UN ABUSO ES DELITO?... or by incorporating some new form of sexual abuse or new possible victims. This aside, some crimes referring to other types of abuse that were already in the CIC of 1983 remain; and there are spaces of possible abuse that have not been specifically classified as a crime. Apart from knowing which modalities are a crime and which are not at each moment in time, it is important to consider other elements of canon law, such as the prescription of criminal action