PARIS (FRANCE)
LaCroix International
June 16, 2019
Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta is the man Pope Francis trusts to lead the world-wide fight against pedophilia in the Church.
And that’s just as well because he is set to meet with bishops of the powerful Polish Catholic Church, which is facing a wave of revelations about sexual abuse by priests.
A plenary session has been scheduled for June 14 in Swidnica, south western Poland, at which the bishops will meet Archbishop Scicluna.
When on May 16 they announced the visit, the Polish bishops were careful to specify that he was responding to an invitation made a year earlier. But it is difficult not to make the link between this visit and the release on May 11 of a documentary implicating several Polish bishops in the alleged protection of pedophile priests.
Directed and produced by two brothers, Tomasz and Marek Sekielski, ‘Tell No One’ is highly critical of Polish church authorities.It explicitly names alleged attackers, as well as bishops suspected of having remained silent, and cites evidence to back-up various claims.
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