The Vatican acknowledges having submitted the bishop emeritus of Dili, in Eastern Timor, to “disciplinary” measures.
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New charges of pedocrime shake the Vatican. The person incriminated this time is none other than the Colauréat of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996. Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, then bishop of Dili, the capital of East Timor, had been rewarded for his role in the fight against Violent Indonesian occupation of the former Portuguese colony, which will become independent in 2002. The other Nobel Prize for that year, José Ramos-Horta, is today president of the East Timor. The case was revealed by the Dutch weekly from Groene Amsterdammer.
Questioned by the Associated Press agency, the chief of the Vatican press office, Matteo Bruni, indicated, Thursday, September 29, that the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith 8, the Roman organization to which the aggressions went up Sexual – was “seized for the first time [from the case of Carlos Ximenes Belo] in 2019” and that “the accusations received concerning the behavior of the bishop” had led him, in September 2020, to “impose certain restrictions Disciplinary “, including” the prohibition of voluntary contact with minors “,” limitations in its movements and in the exercise of its ministry “and” contacts with Eastern Timor “. These measures were “modified and reinforced” in November 2021.
The testimonies presented by the Dutch weekly concern mainly the 1990s. They come from two men, now aged 42 and 45, and who were between 14 and 16 years old at the time of the facts, which would have occurred separately. Both say that they were invited, at the time, by the bishop to join him in his residence. For young boys whose families underwent the atrocities of the Indonesian occupation – from 100,000 to 200,000 Timorais will lose their lives, victims of violence, epidemics or hunger – such a distinction was an honor. Named at the head of the Timoraise Church by John Paul II in 1983, when he was only 35 years old, was not the prelate, even before his price, in addition to the bishop of the capital, a prestigious figure of the defense of human rights and the struggle for self -determination?
money to buy silence
“Paulo” like “Roberto” claim to have been retained by the bishop until it was too late for them to go home. The ecclesiastics then offers them to spend the night in his room. Both will be violated. For the second, the attacks will later reproduce. “Early in the morning, he sent me back,” said Roberto. I was afraid because he was still dark. So I had to wait before I could go home. He also left money for me. ‘was so that I am silent. And to be sure that I will come back. “” The money we need so much, “adds Roberto, whose family is plunged into poverty. The two men say they know other victims of their attacker.
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