VATICAN CITY
Malta Today
Matthew Vella
Monsignor Charles J. Scicluna, the Vatican prelate who for many years stood by the side of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in the Catholic Church’s congregation for the doctrine of faith, is expected to be appointed auxiliary bishop of Malta.
Scicluna, 53, the Vatican’s promoter of justice and chief prosecutor in the clerical sex abuse scandals that rocked the Roman Curia in the past decade, is expected to take up the role of Bishop Annetto Depasquale, according to Italian newspaper La Stampa.
La Stampa’s specialist Vatican Insider blog noted that his promotion outside the Vatican’s inner circle, by sending Scicluna back to his native island, was not expected.
“Scicluna was the incarnation of the zero-tolerance policy towards the church sex abuse cases and he sustained Ratzinger’s activity when it came to changing existing laws and canonical norms, but above everything else a change in mentality: he brought to the frontline the suffering of abuse victims and he promulgate so called emergency laws. And this was the subject of internal discussions inside the Holy See,” La Stampa said.
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