DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
VOXXI
By Ana Lopez
The Dominican Conference of Bishops have asked for pardon from the persons affected by alleged abuses committed by representatives of the Catholic Church in a series of new scandals of pederasty.
The scandals affect several priests and in a separate case to Monsignor Josef Wesolowski, a 65-year-old Pole, that was fired in his post of Papal Nuncio in Santo Domingo due to “missteps” related to accusations of pederasty.
According to he Dominican newspapers, Monsignor Wesolowski had sex for money with underage boys in the “Zona colonial,” the historic center of Santo Domingo.
Catholic Church scandals
John Paul II appointed him nuncio to Bolivia in his first posting. Wesolowski was ordained in 1972 by the then archbishop of Krakow, cardinal Karol Wojtyla, who later became pope John Paul II.
He also worked in several countries in Central Asia and was appointed as Papal Nuncio to the Dominican Republic by Benedict XVI in 2008.
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