In the general celebration after the election of the American Cardinal Robert Prevost, the new pope also mixed. A network of victims of abuse criticized Leo XIV’s choice, as the 69-year-old calls himself. He is accused of indirectly helping with the cover -up of abuse cases. However, according to experts, the allegations are not sustainable. A revenge act of a dissolved community in Peru is suspected.
In particular, the allegations are approximately two cases. The first plays in Chicago in 2000. At that time, Prevost was the regional manager of his order, the Augustiner. The Archdiocese of Chicago had to house a priest whose child abuse was accused in various cases. At this point, the accused could not have done his service for about ten years, worked in the administration of the diocese and was checked. Because the Archdiocese sold the previous place of the priest at the time, they searched for new accommodation and found it in a monastery of the Augustine’s order – in accordance with the disciplinary measures.
As a provincial, Prevost had to approve the relocation of the controlled perpetrator to the Order House. It is now accused of not recognizing the local proximity of the house to a Catholic primary school as a risk in the accommodation of a presumably abuse. The diocese has only released the priest from the active service for two years and he left the religious house. In the meantime, the man, against whom further accusations of abuse were later picked up.
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The second case concerns Peru. Three women accuse the Catholic diocese of Chiclayo and prevosted in his position as a bishop at that time and hide in dealing with accusations of abuse against two priests. The alleged attacks took place before the term of office of Prevost (before 2014), but were only reported in 2022. The American started a preliminary investigation of the church, suspended a priest and handed the matter to the Vatican. The diocese rejects all allegations. The state investigation was stopped due to a lack of evidence. But after high attention in some media, the cases were partially rolled up. The result of the Vatican study is still being treated.
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While the associations of some victims are now accusing the alleged poor use of these matters, prominent abuse of abuse defends the new pope. The journalist Pedro Salinas, co-founder of an initiative of affected, recognized in a Statement Prevost’s “decisive role in the processing of the Sodalicio Falls-one of the worst abuse scandals in Latin America”. Like other experts, he suspects a campaign by former members of the dissolved community “Sodalitium Christianae Vitae”, or simply Sodalicio.
Source: Krone
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