Wednesday 4 September 2013

Vatican envoy sacked over child sex probe

The Vatican’s envoy to the
Dominican Republic has been sacked amid an
investigation in Rome into accusations he had sex
with children, a spokesman was quoted as saying
on Wednesday. Monsignor Josef Wesolowski, a 65-year-old Pole,
has been the papal nuncio in Santo Domingo for
over five years, the I.Media news agency on
Vatican affairs reported quoting the spokesman. The Dominican press said the diplomat had sex
for money with underage boys in the “Zona
colonial”, the historic centre of Santo Domingo. The cleric was ordained in 1972 by the then
archbishop of Krakow, cardinal Karol Wojtyla, who
later became pope John Paul II. John Paul II appointed him nuncio to Bolivia, his
first posting. Wesolowski also worked in several
countries in Central Asia and was appointed to the
Dominican Republic by Benedict XVI in 2008. Pope Francis has vowed to crack down against
abuse in the Catholic Church, reiterating the zero-
tolerance approach eventually taken up by his
predecessor Benedict XVI following a wave of
revelations.

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