FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF contact your diocesan / eparchial Victim’s Assistance THIS SERVICE? ==@27</B=@7<AB3/2=<AC:BG=C@:=1/:27=13A/<3>/@167/: E30A7B34=@1=<B/1B7<4=@;/B7=< The purpose of the Catholic Bishop Abuse Reporting (CBAR) service is to provide a third-party service for gathering and Although Church authorities who receive reports of the relaying to appropriate Church authorities reports of the sexual abuse of a minor and certain other crimes will report following kinds of misconduct: them to civil authorities as required by law, this service is <=B7<B3<232/A/AC0AB7BCB34=@1/::7<5B63>=:7134G=C433: K *(/B6=:7107A6=>E6=6/A that you are the victim of a crime, please contact local law 3<4=@13;3<B7;;327/B3:G K 4=@132A=;3=<3B=>3@4=@;=@B=AC0;7BB= sexual acts through violence, threat, or abuse of authority; WILL THIS SERVICE RESPECT K >3@4=@;32A3FC/:/1BAE7B6/;7<=@=@/ MY PRIVACY? vulnerable person; Although reports made through this service will be routed K >@=2C1323F6707B32>=AA3AA32=@27AB@70CB32 to appropriate Church personnel and, as warranted, civil child pornography, or recruited or induced a authorities for investigation purposes, the reports will minor or a vulnerable person to participate in =B63@E7A30393>B1=<N23<B7/:.=C/@3<=B@3?C7@32 pornographic exhibitions; to provide your name or contact information, although K =@/*(27=13A/<=@3>/@167/:07A6=>=@ you may choose to do so to facilitate the investigative other cleric overseeing a diocese/eparchy in >@=13AA<G2/B/AC0;7BB32E7::03>@=B31B32B6@=C56 the absence of a diocesan or eparchial bishop, 3<6/<1323<1@G>B7=< who, in the exercise of their office, intentionally interfered with a civil or Church investigation into WHAT SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN allegations of sexual abuse committed by another A REPORT? 1:3@71=@@3:757=CA .=C@@3>=@B;CAB7<1:C23 WHAT KINDS OF REPORTS K B63</;3=4B63*(/B6=:7107A6=>G=C/@3 SHOULD NOT BE MADE THROUGH reporting; THIS SERVICE? 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The Catholic Church in the United States has 32 provinces. Each province is made up of dioceses that are grouped together. A province has one archdiocese plus one or more dioceses. The other dioceses in the province are referred to as suffragan dioceses. The archbishop of the archdiocese, also known as the metropolitan, presides over the province. With the new law set down in Vos estis lux mundi, a metropolitan may be authorized by the Holy See to undertake responsibilities for investigating reports involving bishops pertaining to sexual abuse in the Church. Note: This explanation does not pertain to Eastern Catholic Churches in the United States. 8 Glossary of Church Terms Here is a brief glossary of terms often used in the Catholic priests in their dioceses. The Eastern Catholic equivalent Church that may not be completely familiar to journalists to a diocesan bishop is an eparchial bishop. In addition to who have not had a great deal of experience in covering diocesan bishops, there are auxiliary bishops, coadjutor church matters. bishops, and archbishops. bishops’ conference – see episcopal conference. A brother – a non-ordained man who is a member of an institute of consecrated life or a society of apostolic apostolic nuncio – a papal ambassador representing life, and who seeks to live a life consecrated through the the Roman Pontiff (Pope) to the Catholic Church of a nation, profession of poverty, chastity, and obedience by vow or as well as before the civil authorities of a nation. Also some other bond. called papal nuncio. See also pontifical representative. archbishop – title given to a diocesan bishop who is the chief shepherd of an archdiocese. An archbishop may C also preside over an ecclesiastical province, or may be a canon law – ecclesiastical laws governing the Catholic chief shepherd of an archdiocese but hold another, high- Church. In the Latin Church, the governing code is the 1983 ranking Church office, such as an apostolic nuncio. Code of Canon Law (CIC). A separate but parallel Code of archdiocese – The archdiocese, headed by an Canons of the Eastern Churches (CCEO) governs the Eastern archbishop, is typically the largest or oldest diocese in Catholic Churches. an ecclesiastical province and takes on an additional cardinal – the highest-ranking Catholic clergy below the administrative role for the whole province. pope. According to Church law, cardinals are regarded as archeparchy – the equivalent of an archdiocese in the pope’s closest advisors. Most cardinals are archbishops the Eastern Catholic Churches that is entrusted to an or prefects of major departments at the Vatican. Those archeparch (equivalent of an archbishop) of an Eastern cardinals (79 years of age or below) are tasked with the Catholic ecclesiastical province. There are two Catholic responsibility of electing a new pope by gathering at a archeparchies in the United States: the Byzantine Catholic conclave in Rome. Archdiocese of Pittsburgh and the Ukrainian Catholic celibacy – the condition of living chastely in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. unmarried state. At ordination, a diocesan priest or unmarried deacon in the Latin Catholic Church makes a B promise of celibacy.