UNITED STATES
Peter Borre
Overview
On December 3, 2014, the Vatican Information Service issued a Declaration “on the situation regarding the ex-nuncio Msgr. [Jozef] Wesolowski.”
The news hook was a meeting held that day between the Attorney General of the Dominican Republic and “the Promoter of Justice of the Tribunal of the Vatican City State.” The AG declared himself “satisfied” with cooperation from the Vatican which is keeping Wesolowski confined within the Vatican Walls, and plans to try him criminally.The Pope stated that it is important for “the truth to prevail always.”
The three-paragraph Declaration is attached to this post; worth reading for its careful phraseology.
For readers with short memories, Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski is the former apostolic nuncio to the Dominican Republic, with the collateral duty of apostolic delegate to the Commonwealth of Porto Rico – a U.S. Territory (more on this later). A nuncio is the ambassador of the Holy See to the government of a country that has diplomatic relations with the Holy See.
Wesolowski served as nuncio in the DR from 2008 until August, 2013 when he was “secretly recalled” to Rome (New York Times, August 23, 2014).
His prior diplomatic post as nuncio was to four of the Asian “Stans” (former Soviet Republics), from 2002 through 2008. There are detailed allegations against him of sexual abuse of minors in the DR, with on-the-record plaintiffs; also reports of his stash of porn involving minors, more than 100,000 pictures and videos. And he is wanted for questioning in his home country Poland, but per the Associated Press (December 1, 2014) the Polish authorities “cannot proceed…because the Vatican has refused to share the evidence.” …
And other countries where allegations may surface, perhaps the Stans, and the United States via his responsibility for Porto Rico.
Two associates of Wesolowski now in legal jeopardy, one in Poland and the other in the DR, who may flip and expand the story.
The distinct possibility of Wesolowski’s involvement with an organized international network of pedophiles, as reported by Italy’s newspaper of record, the Corriere della Sera, September 26, 2014.
Finally, the peculiar response of the Vatican to date, which raises the possibility of damage control verging on a cover-up.
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