VATICAN CITY
Vatican Radio
(Vatican Radio) Monsignor Charles Jude Scicluna, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Malta, served as the “promoter of justice” of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith until October 2012.
He was effectively the prosecutor of the tribunal of the former Holy Office, whose job it is to investigate what are known as delicta graviora: the crimes which the Catholic Church considers as being the most serious of all and include crimes against the Eucharist and against the sanctity of the Sacrament of Penance, and crimes against the VIth Commandment committed by a cleric against a person under the age of eighteen.
Bishop Scicluna was in fact the man who embodied the line of zero tolerance of sexual abuse against minors, adopted by Benedict XVI.
He supported the Pope’s efforts to change canonical laws and existing laws and above all, the mentality placing special emphasis on the suffering of abuse victims and promulgating a series of “emergency” laws.
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