[NYTr] Mexico's Leading Cardinal Questioned by US Lawyers in Sexual Abuse Inquiry
 
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 19:51:15 -0500 (CDT)


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[I love it how all the news headline writers have replaced the word
"priest" with "cleric" when it has to do with sexual abuse.  "Cleric"
can mean just about anything, but lately it's been used only to refer
to Islamic imams and other furrin divils. But when it's a pedophile
priest, or members of Roman Catholic hierarchy who protect them,
suddenly they too are "clerics." Not inaccurate, just misleading. This
"cleric" is Mexico's highest-ranking Cardinal! -NYTransfer]

BBC News - Aug 8, 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/6937944.stm

Mexico cleric quizzed over abuse By David Willis

BBC News, California

Mexico's leading Roman Catholic cleric has been questioned by American
lawyers in connection with an ongoing child abuse inquiry.

Cardinal Norberto Rivera is being investigated for allegedly protecting
a Catholic priest who abused a Mexican altar boy.

Cardinal Rivera was once seen as a possible candidate to succeed Pope
John Paul II.

His diocese is one of the largest in the world.

The cardinal is accused of sending a priest named Nicolas Aguilar to
Los Angeles knowing that Aguilar had raped a former altar boy in Mexico.

Conspiracy alleged

Lawyers from California met Cardinal Rivera at the headquarters of the
Mexico City archdiocese.

They are trying to establish whether the cardinal can be sued by the
altar boy in a Californian court, along with the Los Angeles cardinal,
Roger Mahony, whose archdiocese recently agreed to pay out $660m in
compensation to victims of child abuse.

Cardinal Mahony is accused of conspiring with the Mexican cardinal to
allow Nicolas Aguilar to flee to California.

Cardinal Rivera has argued that since the incidents referred to in the
altar boy's allegations all took place in Mexico, the Los Angeles court
does not have jurisdiction over him.  [Geographic jurisdiction take
precedence over right and wrong, apparently, in this dude's theology.]

Mr Aguilar is currently on the run in Mexico and wanted on multiple
charges of sex abuse in the United States.

 
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