VATICAN CITY
Vatican Insider
The man who acted as a symbolic figure in the battle against paedophilia is to take up his new post as Auxiliary Bishop of Malta
Andrea Tornielli
Vatican City
Mgr. Charles J. Scicluna – the prelate who fought alongside cardinal Ratzinger and then Pope Benedict XVI in the battle without boundaries against the sad phenomenon of clerical sex abuse against minors – is leaving the Vatican.
His appointment as Auxiliary Bishop of his hometown of Valetta (Malta) will be announced tomorrow. In recent years, Scicluna has held the role of Promoter of Justice of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and a transferral has been on the cards for a while. What was unexpected is the fact that he is being given a role outside the Roman Curia.
Scicluna embodied the line of zero tolerance of sexual abuse against minors, adopted by Benedict XVI and supported the Pope’s efforts to change canonical laws and existing laws and above all, the mentality: he placed special emphasis on the suffering of abuse victims and promulgated a series of “emergency” laws. Not surprisingly, these special laws sparked an internal debate in the Holy See.
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.