Vatican abruptly ousts Dominican Republic envoy

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Vatican abruptly ousts Dominican Republic envoy

AP foreign, Thursday September 5 2013

NICOLE WINFIELD

Associated Press= SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) - Authorities in the Dominican Republic will look into allegations of child sex abuse against the papal envoy to the Caribbean country following his abrupt removal from his post by the Vatican, the attorney general said Wednesday.

Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito was careful to note that his office is aware only of rumors about the papal nuncio, Archbishop Josef Wesolowski, and has not received any accusations.

A Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, confirmed that Wesolowski had been removed from his post and that the church was conducting an investigation of him. He declined to provide any details about the accusations against the Polish-born prelate.

A nuncio is the pope's ambassador to a country and such an abrupt removal is rare.

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1. That makes sense.

[dimbear]

2. local paper.......

http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2013/9/4/48846/The-Vatican-confirms-firing-in-Dominican-Republic-pedophilia-scandal

"Journalist Nuria Piera, in a TV report resulting from a year-long investigation, alleges that Wesolowski paid for sex with minors in the Dominican Republic. "The fact is that we already had news that in the Colonial Zone (in the Dominican capital) they knew him very well, for going to look for minors.”

In addition to Wesolowski, the also Polish priest Alberto Gil Nojache allegedly abuse of minors in the town of Juncalito, Janico, Santiago, and took part in encounters with minors in the resort area of Juan Dolio, San Pedro."
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Sorry about the grammar.

Skip down to the comments, where it is suggested the Vatican whisked Wesolowski away. Doesn't seem necessary, he surely has diplomatic immunity.