Vatican to Polish prosecutor: we don’t extradite

Photo ~ The now deposed apostolic nuncio of the Dominican Republic, Jósef Wesolowski VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has told Polish prosecutors that its former ambassador to the Dominican Republic, under …More
Photo ~ The now deposed apostolic nuncio of the Dominican Republic, Jósef Wesolowski
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has told Polish prosecutors that its former ambassador to the Dominican Republic, under investigation for alleged sex abuse, is covered by diplomatic immunity and that the Vatican doesn’t extradite its citizens.
The case is particularly problematic for the Vatican since Wesolowski was a representative of the pope, accused of grave crimes that the Holy See has previously sought to distance itself from by blaming the worldwide sex abuse scandal on wayward priests and their bishops who failed to discipline them. The Wesolowski case is also delicate because he was both ordained a priest and bishop by his Polish countryman, Pope John Paul II, who will be made a saint in April.
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"Catholics responsible only act when required to do so under the media pressure. And when they do it is always in secret, in this case without disclosing the charges, the suspension or the reason for the suspension," he lamented in a statement Barbara Dorris, director of the Survivors Network Abused by Priests Tasks.
"Like its predecessors, the late pope and Francis acts secretly," she added.
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"Catholics responsible only act when required to do so under the media pressure. And when they do it is always in secret, in this case without disclosing the charges, the suspension or the reason for the suspension," he lamented in a statement Barbara Dorris, director of the Survivors Network Abused by Priests Tasks.

"Like its predecessors, the late pope and Francis acts secretly," she added.

On Wednesday Federico Lombardi, the papal spokesman, that said there is an ongoing investigation into the allegations.

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