PHILIPPINES
Sun.Star
By Bernadette A. Parco
Thursday, October 4, 2012
A CHURCH official wasn’t expelled from a religious order in the midst of a child abuse case more than two decades ago, but chose to return home to Cebu, said Archbishop Emeritus Ricardo Cardinal Vidal.
Cardinal Vidal also told reporters yesterday that his office received last Friday, when he was still in Manila, a copy of Arbishop Jose Palma’s instructions to stop issuing statements to the media regarding the issue.
The 81-year-old prelate said he is abiding by the directive but had to first hold a press conference just to clarify some issues that were already reported.
Msgr. Cristobal Garcia, former Archdiocesan Commission on Worship chairman, was not expelled from his former congregation, Cardinal Vidal said.
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