DILI, East Timor — When Pope Francis becomes the first pontiff to visit an independent East Timor, he will confront a clergy beset by child abuse scandals that have been largely ignored by the deeply Catholic country's freedom heroes.
DILI, East Timor — When Pope Francis becomes the first pontiff to visit an independent East Timor , he will confront a clergy beset by child abuse scandals that have been largely ignored by the deeply Catholic country's freedom heroes.Cases include Nobel-winning Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, who helped Asia's youngest nation free itself from Indonesian occupation, but who the Vatican secretly punished over claims he had sexually abused young children for decades.
It has helped him retain strong support among the country's 1.3 million people, of which 98 percent are Catholic.'We feel we have lost him. We miss him,' Maria Dadi, East Timor national youth council president, told Agence France-Presse.'Because after all he really contributed to the struggle of Timor-Leste.'In another case, defrocked American priest Richard Daschbach was found guilty in 2021 of abusing orphaned, disadvantaged girls.
Abuse Scandals Hang Over Pope's East Timor Visit
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