27. juni 2014
AP skriver bl.a.:
The Vatican's former ambassador to the Dominican Republic has been convicted by a church tribunal of sex abuse and has been defrocked, the first such sentence handed down against a top papal representative.
The Vatican said Friday that Monsignor Jozef Wesolowski was found guilty by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in recent days, and sentenced to the harshest penalty possible against a cleric: laicization, meaning he can no longer perform priestly duties or present himself as a priest.
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Wesolowski is the highest-ranking Vatican official to be investigated for alleged sex abuse, and his case raised questions about whether the Vatican, by removing him from Dominican jurisdiction, was protecting him and placing its own investigations ahead of that of authorities in the Caribbean nation.
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Bemærk: Józef Wesołowski har i en periode været udstationeret i Danmark ved det Apostoliske Nuntiatur i Vedbæk. - læs mere <her>
Wikipedia: Józef Wesołowski
Vatican Information Service: CANONICAL TRIAL OF EX NUNCIO JOZEF WESOLOWSKI