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Swordsmyth
12-19-2018, 02:57 PM
Pope Francis accepted the resignation of a bishop in Los Angeles accused of sexually abusing a minor, the Vatican said on Wednesday, in the latest case of clergy misconduct to shake the U.S. Catholic Church.A brief Vatican statement said Alexander Salazar, 69, an assistant bishop in Los Angeles, was stepping down. It also distributed a letter on the Salazar case written by the current Archbishop of Los Angeles, Jose Gomez.


Gomez's letter to the faithful said that in 2005, a year after Salazar became bishop, the archdiocese had become aware of an accusation that Salazar had engaged in "misconduct with a minor" when he was a priest in a parish in the 1990s.
Police investigated but the Los Angeles district attorney did not prosecute, Gomez's letter said, adding that Salazar, a native of Costa Rica, "has consistently denied any wrongdoing".
The archdiocese's independent Clergy Misconduct Review Board found the allegation "credible" and informed the Vatican.
The archbishop's letter did not explain why the process between the initial accusation and Wednesday's resignation took 13 years.
A statement from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles said Salazar's name resurfaced after Gomez became archbishop in 2011, and ordered a review of past allegations of abuse.
The archdiocese's statement disclosed that Gomez's predecessor, Cardinal Roger Mahoney, sent the case to the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), which investigates abuse cases.
The CDF "permitted Bishop Salazar to remain in ministry subject to certain precautionary conditions, which he has respected". The statement did not elaborate on what the conditions were or why he was allowed to return to ministry.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/los-angeles-bishop-resigns-over-sex-abuse-crisis-135324206.html

oyarde
12-19-2018, 07:31 PM
He can just sign up for food stamps like the rest of LA