Pope Francis faces a credibility test amid allegations against Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet
MONTREAL—“Where there is difficulty, we must confront it, especially if a bishop is involved.”
How the Vatican handles the allegations against Ouellet will send a deafening message from the highest echelons of the institution, one that could bolster Pope Francis’s credibility on clergy abuse or undermine it. Think of him as the Vatican’s executive headhunter, a post that still affords him a weekly audience with the boss — despite Francis ordering a Vatican probe into Ouellet’s alleged conduct when it was brought to his attention in early 2021, according to the statement of claim, to which no statement of defence has yet been filed.
In April of this year, Father Léopold Manirabarusha, was suddenly removed from his ministry in the Quebec City area — and inelegantly A preteen raped in the church sacristy in the 1950s; an abbot masturbating his teenage victim in the backseat of a car while being driven around by the church janitor; a horrified 12-year-old whose first sexual contact ended with the thought that the priest who slipped into his bed and out of his clothes had urinated on his stomach.
We have the $15-million settlement of a lawsuit in 2012 paying out cash to 125 victims of a priests in Antigonish, N.S. — a case that only came about because of allegations of a sexual-abuse victim penned in a 2002 suicide note. “Historically — because it would give scandal to the church — there was a time when the clergy would close ranks and then just move a guy. That’s not going to be done anymore —ever, at least in Canada.”
Necessary, Francis wrote, because “the crimes of sexual abuse offend Our Lord, cause physical, psychological and spiritual damage to the victims and harm the community of the faithful.”
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