PENNSYLVANIA
The Abington Journal
July 04. 2014
By Mark Guydish – mguydish@civitasmedia.com
The Vatican is sending a cardinal and a bishop to Paraguay to investigate activities of a priest previously accused of sex abuse while residing in the Diocese of Scranton, according to a report in the Washington Post.
The Post reported that Monsignor Eliseo Ariotti, the papal nuncio, or pope’s ambassador, in Paraguay confirmed the team will visit the Diocese of Ciudad del Este in late July.
The team “will likely look into the activities of the Rev. Carlos Urrutigoity, an Argentinian-born priest accused of sexually molesting minors when he served as a priest in Scranton more than a decade ago,” the Post story contends, though the sentence simplifies Urrutigoity’s saga here.
Urrutigoity was one of the founding members of the “Society of St. John” set up in Pike County, part of the Diocese of Scranton. While the diocese sanctioned his request to set up the conservative Catholic enclave, he and co-founder Eric Ensey were not, strictly speaking, diocesan priests.
Urrutigoity and Ensey were initially two unnamed priests accused of sexual misconduct with boys in 2002. Then-Bishop James Timlin revoked their rights to publicly practice as priests in any capacity, and had them evaluated at a facility in Canada.
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