Belgian cardinal offered to hush up sex case, Belgian sex abuse tapes
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Belgian cardinal offered to hush up sex case (AP) – 8/28/10
BRUSSELS — Roman Catholic Cardinal Godfried Danneels of Belgium offered to
keep a sexual molestation case against a bishop secret until the bishop
retired, an official said Saturday. Toon Osaer, Danneels' spokesman,
confirmed a report in Saturday's De Standaard newspaper about a secretly taped
meeting that Danneels held on April 8 with Belgian Bishop Roger Vangheluwe and
the bishop's sexual abuse victim.
Osaer told the VRT television and radio network that Danneels told the
victim the case against Vangheluwe could be kept quiet until the bishop
retired as scheduled a year later. In the end, Vangheluwe resigned two weeks
after the meeting, expressing sorrow for having abused the victim as a
youngster for years, both while serving as a priest and a bishop. Danneels
retired
as head of the Belgian Catholic church in January. But police later
questioned him as a potential witness in the case and raided his home and
office,
confiscating documents and a personal computer.
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Belgian sex abuse tapes amplify Catholic scandals Sun Aug 29, 2010
PARIS (Reuters) - Leaked tapes of Belgium's Cardinal Godfried Danneels
urging a victim not to reveal he was sexually abused by a bishop are some of
the most damaging documents to emerge in the scandal rocking the Roman
Catholic Church.
The tapes, made secretly by the victim and published in two Belgian
newspapers on Saturday, show the former primate of Belgium exhorting him to
accept a private apology or wait one year until the bishop retired before
making
his case public.
Their meeting took place on April 8, at a time when the Vatican was under
fire for allegedly covering up similar abuse cases by priests in other
countries and shocking abuse claims dominated the news in several European
states.
A spokesman for Danneels denied the once popular archbishop of Brussels
wanted to cover up the case, which led to the sudden resignation of Bruges
Bishop Roger Vangheluwe, 73, later that month, but the tapes show him arguing
firmly for silence.
Belgian Church spokesman Jurgen Mettepenningen confirmed to Reuters that
the transcripts in the Flemish dailies De Standaard and Het Nieuwsblad were
genuine.
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