Brussels Correspondent - "Scary, this is beyond the boundary of tolerable, this can not happen again" Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme, head of the caretaker government, responded personally, Friday, April 15, dissemination the day before an interview, Thursday, April 14, the former bishop of Bruges, Roger Vangheluwe.
Resigned in April 2010 and currently residing in a community of La Ferte-Imbault (Loir-et-Cher), the former official of the Belgian church had already confessed to sexually abusing a nephew between 1973 and 1986. In an interview with a journalist from the Flemish channel VT4, he said he had abused another boy's family.
Belgium is even more shocked that the former bishop has downplayed his actions. "That did not last long, one year," he said of his relationship with a second nephew. He was surprised to be targeted for acts "25 years old" when he explained by, he "really does his best as a bishop." He further stated that he had "not at all feel like a pedophile, at least in [my] dreams".
This relationship, says he, "nor was" not uncommon at the time "and he believed it was" superficial things ". Roger Vangheluwe but confirmed that he had paid to avoid the case to be noised abroad. The Vatican has formally responded Friday, saying "conscious of the gravity" of these new revelations.
The church promised a "thorough assessment". The Belgian bishops, meanwhile, say they are "extremely shocked". They talk about their "astonishment" when they had advised their former colleague a withdrawal into silence abroad, as part of a "spiritual and psychological treatment" imposed by the Vatican.
Rome must soon take a final decision on the fate of the former bishop of Bruges and its possible exclusion - which should be approved by the pope. Obviously, and as many feared, Roger Vangheluwe in no way aware of his actions. It even seems very surprised by the impact of his interview.
Friday, he declined to answer other journalists who had researched the place where he lived in hiding. One of his guests responded to his place and described it as "a saint, because he acknowledged his sins." The entire Belgian political world is now waiting for concrete acts of the Belgian church.
And, in particular, it meets the recommendations there are more than two weeks by a parliamentary commission of inquiry. In a report voted on unanimously, MEPs asked the Catholic hierarchy to establish a sort of tribunal to answer the hundreds of victims who filed complaints against religious acts committed over several decades.
Before that, a commission established by the church had produced a report on the horrific acts suffered by a series of victims who had entrusted to her. Jean-Pierre Stroobants 
Resigned in April 2010 and currently residing in a community of La Ferte-Imbault (Loir-et-Cher), the former official of the Belgian church had already confessed to sexually abusing a nephew between 1973 and 1986. In an interview with a journalist from the Flemish channel VT4, he said he had abused another boy's family.
Belgium is even more shocked that the former bishop has downplayed his actions. "That did not last long, one year," he said of his relationship with a second nephew. He was surprised to be targeted for acts "25 years old" when he explained by, he "really does his best as a bishop." He further stated that he had "not at all feel like a pedophile, at least in [my] dreams".
This relationship, says he, "nor was" not uncommon at the time "and he believed it was" superficial things ". Roger Vangheluwe but confirmed that he had paid to avoid the case to be noised abroad. The Vatican has formally responded Friday, saying "conscious of the gravity" of these new revelations.
The church promised a "thorough assessment". The Belgian bishops, meanwhile, say they are "extremely shocked". They talk about their "astonishment" when they had advised their former colleague a withdrawal into silence abroad, as part of a "spiritual and psychological treatment" imposed by the Vatican.
Rome must soon take a final decision on the fate of the former bishop of Bruges and its possible exclusion - which should be approved by the pope. Obviously, and as many feared, Roger Vangheluwe in no way aware of his actions. It even seems very surprised by the impact of his interview.
Friday, he declined to answer other journalists who had researched the place where he lived in hiding. One of his guests responded to his place and described it as "a saint, because he acknowledged his sins." The entire Belgian political world is now waiting for concrete acts of the Belgian church.
And, in particular, it meets the recommendations there are more than two weeks by a parliamentary commission of inquiry. In a report voted on unanimously, MEPs asked the Catholic hierarchy to establish a sort of tribunal to answer the hundreds of victims who filed complaints against religious acts committed over several decades.
Before that, a commission established by the church had produced a report on the horrific acts suffered by a series of victims who had entrusted to her. Jean-Pierre Stroobants
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