Vatican shelves assault probe into Canadian cardinal promises
ROME — The Vatican reported Thursday that a preliminary church investigation into sexual assault allegations by a Canadian woman from a best cardinal, Marc Ouellet, has identified the circumstance doesn’t warrant more investigation.
Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni issued a assertion responding to experiences this week that Ouellet was one of several people named in a course-motion lawsuit from the archdiocese of Quebec that accused a number of priests of sexual abuse or assault.
Ouellet, 78, headed the Quebec archdiocese from 2002-2010, when he turned the highly effective prefect of the Vatican’s bishops’ office environment. In that career, he oversees all of the Catholic Church’s investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct involving grown ups and bishops or cardinals.
Bruni verified allegations versus Ouellet were been given by the Vatican and investigated by a Jesuit theologian, the Rev. Jacques Servais. Servais determined there ended up no grounds to proceed more with a canonical investigation or demo, Bruni stated.
Requested about the lawsuit, Servais mentioned he arrived to that conclusion just after having browse the written allegations by the woman, determined as “F,” and getting interviewed her by way of Zoom with a member of a diocesan committee existing.
“This human being did not carry forward an accusation that could supply materials for an investigation,” the Vatican’s statement quoted Servais as stating.
As these, Pope Francis “declared that there are not sufficient factors to open up a canonical investigation for sexual aggression by Cardinal Ouellet towards F,” Bruni’s assertion mentioned.
The Catholic Church has fantastic-tuned procedures to investigate and sanction clergymen accused of sexual misconduct with minors, but it almost never takes punitive motion in opposition to clerics accused of sexual misconduct with grown ups.
The lady was quoted by the Canadian Push and other media as accusing Ouellet of a number of incidents of unwelcome touching, which includes sliding his hand down her back again and touching her buttocks at a 2010 function in Quebec Metropolis.
ROME — The Vatican reported Thursday that a preliminary church investigation into sexual assault allegations by a Canadian woman from a best cardinal, Marc Ouellet, has identified the circumstance doesn’t warrant more investigation.
Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni issued a assertion responding to experiences this week that Ouellet was one of several people named in a course-motion lawsuit from the archdiocese of Quebec that accused a number of priests of sexual abuse or assault.
Ouellet, 78, headed the Quebec archdiocese from 2002-2010, when he turned the highly effective prefect of the Vatican’s bishops’ office environment. In that career, he oversees all of the Catholic Church’s investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct involving grown ups and bishops or cardinals.
Bruni verified allegations versus Ouellet were been given by the Vatican and investigated by a Jesuit theologian, the Rev. Jacques Servais. Servais determined there ended up no grounds to proceed more with a canonical investigation or demo, Bruni stated.
Requested about the lawsuit, Servais mentioned he arrived to that conclusion just after having browse the written allegations by the woman, determined as “F,” and getting interviewed her by way of Zoom with a member of a diocesan committee existing.
“This human being did not carry forward an accusation that could supply materials for an investigation,” the Vatican’s statement quoted Servais as stating.
As these, Pope Francis “declared that there are not sufficient factors to open up a canonical investigation for sexual aggression by Cardinal Ouellet towards F,” Bruni’s assertion mentioned.
The Catholic Church has fantastic-tuned procedures to investigate and sanction clergymen accused of sexual misconduct with minors, but it almost never takes punitive motion in opposition to clerics accused of sexual misconduct with grown ups.
The lady was quoted by the Canadian Push and other media as accusing Ouellet of a number of incidents of unwelcome touching, which includes sliding his hand down her back again and touching her buttocks at a 2010 function in Quebec Metropolis.