VATICAN CITY
National Catholic Reporter
Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service | Dec. 2, 2014
VATICAN CITY
The attorney general of the Dominican Republic met Dec. 2 with Vatican City’s promoter of justice to discuss the sex abuse case against Jozef Wesolowski, a former archbishop who had served as nuncio to the Caribbean nation.
Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, released a statement saying Francisco Dominguez Brito, the attorney general, requested the meeting during his trip to Europe to make contact with officials at the Vatican and in Wesolowski’s native Poland.
The meeting took place “within the framework of the international cooperation of the investigating agencies,” Lombardi said. The meeting “was useful for both sides given the complexity of the inquest” and the likelihood that the Vatican will make a formal request for evidence from the investigation in the Dominican Republic.
Citing the “gravity of the accusations” of sexually abusing boys in the Dominican Republic, the Vatican placed Wesolowski under house arrest in late September. “In light of the medical condition of the accused, supported by medical documentation,” he was not housed in a Vatican jail cell.
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