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Posted by Barbara Blaine on May 16, 2012
Reuters is reporting that a top Vatican official has kept silent for months about a high profile Catholic priest’s fathering a child.
Will Catholic officials ever start being more honest and prompt about clergy sex crimes and misdeeds?
The Vatican official is Spanish Cardinal Velasio De Paolis, who was appointed two years ago by Pope Benedict to oversee the Legion of Christ. Yesterday, the Legion’s most prominent priest, Fr. Thomas D. Williams, admitted he had an “affair” and fathered a child which neither he nor his Legion supervisors are financially supporting.
It’s important to remember that Fr. Williams is also accused of having inappropriate sexual contact with
–college students in Rome, and
–the daughter of a prominent US Catholic figure.
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