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Tue 01 Jan 2002Vatican proposes secret trials for suspected paedophile priestsThe Vatican has quietly issued new rules for Catholic churches worldwide to deal with paedophile priests, saying they should stand trial in secret ecclesiastical courts.Instead, they were published in Latin without any fanfare in the latest yearly volume of Acta Apostolicae Sedis, (Acts of the Apostolic See), the journal of record of the Holy See.