Pope Francis expelled Brazilian priest accused of sexual assault

Pope Francis expelled from the Catholic Church the Brazilian Jean Rogers Rodrigo de Sousa, who was accused of badual abuse in Brazil and who performed pastoral tasks in Paraguay.

The priest "received from the Holy Father thescripto of loss of the clerical state and dispensing the corresponding obligations ", said in a statement the diocese of Ciudad del Este, capital of the department of Alto Paraná and located 320 km east of Asunción.

For his part, Bishop Guillermo Steckling, Bishop of Ciudad del Este, issued a report stating that due to the disciplinary procedure opened by the Vatican the Brazilian priest had been badigned to pastoral tasks in the penitentiaries of Alto Paraná. But after the papal decree, De Sousa was excluded from the archives.

According to the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, De Sousa was denounced in 2006 for alleged badual badault of nuns belonging to a Catholic community in Anapolis, the ark of Mary, located in the Brazilian state of Goias. The Paraguayan diocese has made no mention of these accusations.

As luck would have it, the The Paraguayan Bishops' Conference issued a statement in which it affirmed that "the fight against the scourge of abuse by clergy is a priority for Pope Francis and all of us, pastors. "

The declaration was signed by Monsignor Adalberto Martínez, president of the Episcopal Conference, who takes part in the seminar on the protection of minors in the Church at the Vatican.

The last complaint in Paraguay for alleged badual abuse by a priest was recorded in 2017 before the episcopal conference and the parquet floor. A young catechist accused of badual violence by priest Silvestre Olmedo, dismissed from the direction of a parish and sent to a spiritual retirement home.

The prosecution requested that Olmedo is sent to an oral and public trial.

Pope Francis opens Thursday at the Vatican a three-day summit on pedophile priests, a phenomenon against which victims claim more than ever a brutal punishment.

"Listen to the cry of children who ask for justice"the pope exclaimed, inviting patriarchs, cardinals, archbishops, bishops and religious superiors to deal with the "scourge of badual badault" committed by members of the Church.

For the first time in history, the 200 leaders of the Catholic Church from around the world meet at the request of the pope to talk about a heinous crime that has undermined the credibility of the church. an institution on every continent that has been concealed and denied. for decades.