Francisco spends his papacy birthday in a retreat with a former Argentine bishop accused of abuse

ROME.- The
presence of the Argentine bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, investigated for badual abuse and abuse of power against adult seminarians, as part of spiritual exercises

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and the Curia of Ariccia sparked controversy in the Catholic environment.

Catholic publications, such as the British Catholic Herald and the US curatorial website LifeSiteNews, have taken up this theme. The Vatican press room avoided making comments.

The pope goes into retirement with the curia sa
sixth birthday at the head of the Catholic Church.

Zanchetta
He was appointed Bishop of Oran by Jorge Bergoglio in 2013. In 2016, he left his diocese for alleged health problems. Shortly afterwards, the Pope appointed him "advisor" to the Apostolic Headquarters (APSA) Heritage Administration.

A year later, it was learned that the prelate had been accused by seminarians of badual violence and abuse of power. The legal complaint was filed in Salta.

There is
who accuse Bergoglio of taking Zanchetta to Rome to protect him, which the Vatican has twice denied, alleging that the denunciations of abuses against Zanchetta were revealed after the pope's appointment.

Last January, the director of the Vatican's press room, Alessandro Gisotti, declared that the charges against Zanchetta had been brought to the Vatican months after his appointment to APSA and that there had been accusations of "authoritarianism", while his resignation from Oran was it was because of his difficulty in managing relations with the diocesan clergy.

The former general of the diocese of Oran, Juan José Manzano, badured the newspaper
The gallery, of Salta, that Pope Francis
He was aware of the dubious behavior of the bishop since 2015. And even at that time he had summoned him to a meeting.

In any event, a previous investigation into allegations of badual abuse had been initiated and, Gisotti added, while she was in the process, "Mgr. Zanchetta will refrain from working."

An "abstention" that now does not prevent him from joining the retreat in Ariccia with the pope and other cardinals.