Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday appointed a Boston canon lawyer with extensive experience handling sexual abuse complaints to be the Vatican’s chief prosecutor of sex crimes against minors.
The Rev. Robert W. Oliver, 52, will become promoter of justice — a title akin to prosecutor in the American legal system — for the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith, the Vatican office charged with protecting church doctrine. It oversees all serious crimes against the church, including the sexual abuse of children by priests.
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It would make more sense to appoint a layperson who is not subject to a vow of obedience to his superiors. How can an insider function objectively posing as an outsider?
Not a diddler but an enabler. A chair in Hell is waiting for Bernie the Pymp.
Finally, one of your posts for which I am in total agreement.
And the beat goes on....
Like Herr Papa is going to appoint anybody that is going to do anythingfor the victims..