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NEW CDF PREFECT INVOLVED IN HISTORIC SEX ABUSE CASE COVER UP

By Daniele Palmer
Tablet (UK)
July 4, 2017

http://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/7417/0/new-cdf-prefect-involved-in-historic-sex-abuse-case-cover-up

Archbishop Ladaria and the then CDF prefect are alleged to have asked the superiors of an Italian priest found guilty of abuse to stay silent

Reports have emerged that the new prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith (CDF) covered up a case of sexual abuse of minors when he was secretary of the same Vatican dicastery in 2012.

Archbishop Luis Ladaria Ferrer, the Spanish Jesuit chosen by Francis to take Cardinal Muller’s place as head of the CDF, and the CDF’s then-prefect, the American Cardinal William Levada, asked the superiors of an Italian parish priest who was found guilty of abusing children by the Holy See, to stay silent and not divulge any information to the public, the Italian daily newspaper, La Repubblica, reports.

Fr. Gianna Trotta, a priest with the Italian diocese of Foggia, was charged and found guilty of multiple cases of sexual abuse of minors by an internal Vatican legal procedure in 2012.

Archbishop Ladaria and Cardinal Levada, both chosen by Benedict XVI to run the CDF, wrote a letter "advising" the priest’s superiors to not let out any news of the abuses lest it create “a scandal amongst the faithful.”




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