Regarding: "The report provides a detailed history of how the church from its earliest times regarded child sexual abuse as a sin, punishable in the next life, but by the Fourth century it was also seen as a crime punishable by imprisonment, as a minimum. That tradition was turned on its head when the 1917 Code of Canon Law abrogated seven papal and church council decrees that required clerics who abused children to be handed over to the civil authorities. "
- Now, with certitude, we can say that the Holy See / Roman Curia made a concerted effort to suppress necessary information about the history of development of ecclesial law concerning the rape and molestation of children and young people.
- Due to the suppression, not doubt part of the the Holy See's and Holy Office effort to suppress the role of history and doctrinal development in seminary training, there have been generations of clerics woefully ignorant of the church's ancient stand about these crimes and their legal remedies.