Table of contents

1. Education as a peculiar and irreplaceable 'mission' of parents: the bonum physicum et spirituale prolis - 2. The doctrinal and jurisprudential debate on the legal relevance of the bonum spirituale: the extraneousness of moral and religious education to the object of matrimonial consent - 3. (Segue) Moral and religious education as an essential component of the bonum prolis - 4. The judgment of the Sicilian Regional Ecclesiastical Court of 26 January 2007: incestuous paedophilia as a cause of incapacity to assume the essential obligations of marriage - 5. Irregularities in receiving and exercising the ordo sacer and the presence of paedophile tendencies: the Code of Canon Law and the documents of the Holy See - 6. The provisions of the Italian Episcopal Conference - 7. The repression of sexual crimes committed by clerics to the detriment of minors: the motu proprio Sacramentorum sanctitatis tutela - 8. The measures issued by the United States Bishops' Conference - 9. Analysis of some significant measures adopted by other Bishops' Conferences - 10. Summarising considerations