By Giacomo Galeazzi
Vatican Insider
December 23, 2011
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has placed under investigation a diocese where Anglican priests were allowed to continue to work despite having been accused of pedophilia. The decision to investigate the diocese of Chichester made byRowan Williams, spiritual leader of the Church of England, marks the first time since theeighties that the Archbishop of Canterburyorders an apostolic inspection of a diocese.
The pedophilia scandal caused an earthquake in the Catholic Church, particularly in Anglo-Saxon countries, but it had never before appeared so conspicuously in the Protestant world.
A few months ago, the Vatican ordered an apostolic visitation of the Ealing Abbey in London after it was discovered that monks had been involved in abuse for years. Two vicars are at the center of the Chichester scandal, Roy Cotton and Colin Pritchard, who have molested children in churches in the Midlands and EastSussex during the seventies and eighties. In May, an investigation uncovered that the twocontinued serving despite the fact that their superiors were aware of the serious allegationsagainst them.
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