PHILIPPINES
Sun.Star
By Ivy C. Tejano
Monday, February 25, 2013
DAVAO CITY Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte is throwing full support to Roman Catholic activists in United States (US) who are calling on a cardinal not to take part in the Papal Conclave this year after he was found to have been protecting priests who have figured in several sexual abuse cases.
Based on an article from the Reuters, the activists delivered a petition with around 10,000 marks to the North Hollywood Church, where Cardinal Roger Mahony lives, to advise the latter not to attend the conclave so as not to insult the survivors of sexual abuse committed by some priest in Los Angeles during his term as archbishop from 1985 to 2011.
In his television program “Gikan sa Masa, Para sa Masa” on Sunday, Duterte said his stance on the matter is the same to those catholic activists.
According to church files unsealed under a US court order dated January 2013, Mahony worked to send priests known to be abusers, out of state, to protect them from law enforcement scrutiny in the 1980s.
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