ROME (ITALY)
Crux
April 15, 2019
By Claire Giangravè
A long-awaited ecclesiastical trial for a priest who allegedly broke the seal of confession to inform members of a controversial lay group in Italy of a police investigation of their leader for sexual abuse of minors has been postponed indefinitely.
The decision has not played well with alleged victims of the group and their families.
“They are playing with our lives,” said the mother of one of the victims to Crux April 4.
The mother, who wishes to remain anonymous to protect her underage daughter’s identity, claims to have gone to confession with Father Orazio Caputo in the fall of 2017 where she spoke of her concerns for her daughter within the lay-led “Catholic Culture and Environment Association” (ACCA) in the southern Italian town of Acireale.
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