PUERTO RICO
The Tablet (UK)

9 May 2013

The US territory’s most senior Catholic has said there is no reason for him to resign, despite his being asked to do so by the Vatican.

The Archbishop of San Juan, Roberto Gonzalez Nieves, denies accusations against him, which include the cover-up of clerical paedophilia.

During a meeting with Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops at the Vatican in December, Archbishop Gonzalez was asked to leave his post and move elsewhere within the Church. “Injustice, persecution, defamation, distortion of the facts and an unfair process cannot be reasons to resign,” he said in a letter to the cardinal in February.