DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Telegraph (UK)

Disgraced Polish Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski was removed from an official photograph after being put under investigation for alleged child abuse in the Dominican Republic

By Nick Squires 4:18PM GMT 20 Jan 2014

It is the sort of practice normally expected of paranoid regimes such as North Korea, Mao’s China or the former Soviet Union, but a disgraced Polish archbishop who is being investigated for child sex abuse has been subjected to a Trotsky-style rubbing out in an official Catholic Church photo.

Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski served as a papal envoy in the Dominican Republic but was recalled to Rome last year amid claims that he sexually abused a number of children in the slums of Santo Domingo, the capital.

He appears to have been “purged” from a photograph of members of the bishops’ conference of the Caribbean country.

In the original picture, he appears smiling in…