Sc Bishop Says Vatican Has Cleared Him of Sexual Abuse Allegation

By Avery G. Wilks
Post and Courier
December 7, 2020

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South Carolina’s top Roman Catholic priest says the Vatican has cleared him of wrongdoing after he was accused of sexually abusing a boy as the pastor of a New York church in the late 1970s.

In a message to fellow S.C. priests ahead of Sunday’s mass, Charleston Bishop Robert Guglielmone wrote that he received a letter “stating that the Vatican has determined that the sexual abuse allegation against me has no semblance of truth and is thus unfounded.”

“While not surprising to me, it is very welcomed news as it confirms what I have adamantly stated,” Guglielmone continued. “I am innocent of the accusation that was made against me.”