Monday, July 22, 2019

IN the NEWS - Down to Brazil

But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Genesis 13:3

"Police in Brazil are investigating three Catholic priests accused of abusing several altar boys and seminarians. The former bishop of their diocese, who resigned in May, is also under investigation for having allegedly extorted money from them in exchange for his silence.


The scandal in the Diocese of Limeira, in the State of São Paulo, was last week’s cover story in Revista Veja, a major weekly magazine, prompting the opening of new investigations. The Brazilian press has been covering the accusations against Father Pedro Leandro Ricardo, from the city of Americana, since January, when the police opened investigations against him for cases of sexual abuse and he was suspended from his parish.

Veja’s story, published on July 12, was the first to disclose details of Ricardo’s crimes and also revealed the alleged crimes of two other priests from the diocese of Limeira, Father Felipe Negro and Father Carlos Alberto da Rocha.
In the story, Ricardo was accused by six former altar boys and seminarians - all of them minors at the time of the alleged events - of having inappropriately touched them before or after Masses. The testimony includes graphic descriptions."
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