BELGIUM
Breitbart
by NICK HALLETT
13 Oct 201610
One of Pope’s Francis’s new cardinals has been accused of appointing a known paedophile as a parish priest in Belgium.
Jozef de Kesel, Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels, was named as one of 17 new cardinals on Sunday, but has a controversial history and is known for expressing liberal views.
While serving as Bishop of Bruges, he appointed a man who had been convicted of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy as a parish priest.
The mayor of the town of Middelkerke, where the man was to have served, wrote to Bishop de Kesel expressing her shock.
“The municipal cabinet would like to stress that it doesn’t want to put this person on trial, but the character of the new priest does not meet up to our expectations for someone that is meant to set an example,” she said.
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