VATICAN CITY
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BY CAROL GLATZ
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis named the Vatican’s former chief prosecutor of clerical sex abuse cases to head his new doctrinal team dealing with appeals filed by clergy accused of abuse.
Pope Francis named Auxiliary Bishop Charles J. Scicluna, 55, of Malta to head his new doctrinal team dealing with appeals filed by clergy accused of abuse. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Auxiliary Bishop Charles J. Scicluna, 55, of Malta was appointed president of the new board of review within the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
The Vatican announced his appointment as well as the names of the board’s eight other members Jan. 21.
Before being named an auxiliary bishop in Malta in 2012, Bishop Scicluna spent 10 years as promoter of justice at the doctrinal congregation, handling accusations of clerical sex abuse. He said the church must respond to allegations clearly and not react with “inertia, a culture of silence or repression.”
Since being named to Malta, he has continued to troubleshoot for the Vatican. In 2014, he traveled to Geneva to testify before the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child, and in April he traveled to Scotland to collect testimony in a case against Cardinal Keith O’Brien, the former archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, who resigned in 2013 after admitting to sexual misconduct.
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