Vatican Refused to Hand Over ´Cardinal´ Ladaria Implicated in Sex Abuse Cover-Up

Monday, October 22, 2018

Vatican Refused to Hand Over ´Cardinal´ Ladaria Implicated in Sex Abuse Cover-Up

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by Christine Niles, M.St. (Oxon.), J.D. • ChurchMilitant.com • October 20, 2018

Critics slam move to protect Cdl. Luis Ladaria Ferrer as evasion of justice

VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Vatican is invoking sovereign immunity for a cardinal implicated in covering up sex abuse.

Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was summoned to criminal court Sept. 19 to answer for his role in advising Cdl. Philippe Barbarin on how to discipline a predator priest.

Barbarin, who heads the diocese of Lyon, France, is facing trial for failing to sanction Fr. Bernard Preynat, accused of homosexual assault of multiple Scout members from 1980–1990. The revelations about the popular and media-friendly cardinal have rocked the Church in France over the past several years, causing multiple French bishops to ask forgiveness and pledge to implement stronger measures against sex abuse. An online petition demanding that Barbarin resign has garnered more than 100,000 signatures.

"I realize today that my answer at that time was not commensurate with the stakes," Barbarin told Le Monde last year. "Today, we would not act like that, that's what was wrong."

Preynat was allowed to remain in active ministry after Barbarin learned in 2007 that the priest had abused multiple young males. Barbarin admits he failed to remove Preynat based on the priest's assurance that he had not molested anyone after 1991. The priest was allowed to remain in ministry until 2015, after further allegations of abuse surfaced.

In 2015, Barbarin had turned to Ladaria for guidance on disciplining Preynat. Ladaria at the time was secretary for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and in charge of the department overseeing clerical sexual misconduct. He advised Barbarin at the time to take "appropriate disciplinary measures while avoiding public scandal." The victims' attorneys argue this was a clear message from Ladaria not to pursue justice. Both Barbarin and Ladaria were ordered by the Lyons court to stand trial for their role in covering up Preynat's abuse.

After the court twice delayed proceedings because of the Vatican's failure to respond to the summons, the Vatican sent a diplomatic note Sept. 17 — two days before the start of trial — to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Lyon court making clear it rejected the summons. Arguing that Ladaria's correspondence with Barbarin took place "in the exercise of sovereign functions" and that international law recognizes "criminal immunity ratione materiae to public officials for acts performed in the name of the sovereign pontiff," the Vatican deemed the summons unacceptable.

François Devaux, who initiated the proceedings against Barbarin, slammed the Vatican's move, saying it "highlights the particular problem of the Church: a system that allows us to evade justice ... ."

Ladaria was tapped to replace Cdl. Gerhard Müller as head of the CDF in 2017, whose five-year term was not renewed by ~~Pope~~ Francis. Müller later confirmed the reason was owing to clashes between him and the pope over his handling of clerical abusers. The pope repeatedly ignored the CDF's recommendations on punishment for accused priests, instead choosing leniency. In at least one case, Francis was forced to apologize after reversing sanctions imposed on Fr. Mauro Inzoli, convicted in criminal court of abusing multiple young males.

Barbarin's trial is scheduled to move forward without Ladaria in January 2019. Canonical proceedings against the French cardinal have been suspended during the criminal investigation.

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St John Chrysostom

Our Lord having reproached the Jews with blindness, they might have said, We are not blind, but we avoid you as a deceiver. Our Lord therefore gives the marks which distinguish a robber and deceiver from a true shepherd. First come those of the deceiver and robber: Verily, verily, I say to you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. There is an allusion here to Antichrist, and to certain false Christs who had been, and were to be. The Scriptures He calls the door. They admit us to the knowledge of God, they protect the sheep, they shut out the wolves, they bar the entrance to heretics. He that uses not the Scriptures, but climbs up some other way, i.e. some self-chosen, some unlawful way, is a thief. Climbs up, He says, not, enters, as if it were a thief getting over a wall, and running all risks. Some other way, may refer too to the commandments and traditions of men which the Scribes taught, to the neglect of the Law. When our Lord further on calls Himself the Door, we need not be surprised. According to the office which He bears, He is in one place the Shepherd, in another the Sheep. In that He introduces us to the Father, He is the Door, in that He takes care of us, He is the Shepherd. (Catena Aurea)

LIBERTAS ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON THE NATURE OF HUMAN LIBERTY
35. And as to tolerance, it is surprising how far removed from the equity and prudence of the Church are those who profess what is called liberalism. For, in allowing that boundless license of which We have spoken, they exceed all limits, and end at last by making no apparent distinction between truth and error, honesty and dishonesty. And because the Church, the pillar and ground of truth, and the unerring teacher of morals, is forced utterly to reprobate and condemn tolerance of such an abandoned and criminal character, they calumniate her as being wanting in patience and gentleness, and thus fail to see that, in so doing, they impute to her as a fault what is in reality a matter for commendation. But, in spite of all this show of tolerance, it very often happens that, while they profess themselves ready to lavish liberty on all in the greatest profusion, they are utterly intolerant toward the Catholic Church, by refusing to allow her the liberty of being herself free.

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St. Vincent Ferrer -- Sermon on the Last Judgment: In the same way, in the time of Antichrist, the Sun of justice will be obscured by the interposition of temporal goods and the wealth which Antichrist will bestow on the world, inasmuch as the brightness of faith in Jesus Christ and the glow of good lives will no longer shine among Christians. For, lest they should lose their dominion, temporal rulers, kings and princes will range themselves on the side of Antichrist. In like manner, prelates for fear of losing their dignities, and religious and priests to gain honors and riches, will forsake the Faith of Christ and adhere to Antichrist.

Neither living nor lifeless faith remains in a heretic who disbelieves one article of faith. The reason of this is that the species of every habit depends on the formal aspect of the object, without which the species of the habit cannot remain. Now the formal object of faith is the First Truth, as manifested in Holy Writ and the teaching of the Church, which proceeds from the First Truth. Consequently whoever does not adhere, as to an infallible and Divine rule, to the teaching of the Church, which proceeds from the First Truth manifested in Holy Writ, has not the habit of faith, but holds that which is of faith otherwise than by faith. Even so, it is evident that a man whose mind holds a conclusion without knowing how it is proved, has not scientific knowledge, but merely an opinion about it. Now it is manifest that he who adheres to the teaching of the Church, as to an infallible rule, assents to whatever the Church teaches; otherwise, if, of the things taught by the Church, he holds what he chooses to hold, and rejects what he chooses to reject, he no longer adheres to the teaching of the Church as to an infallible rule, but to his own will. Hence it is evident that a heretic who obstinately disbelieves one article of faith, is not prepared to follow the teaching of the Church in all things; but if he is not obstinate, he is no longer in heresy but only in error. Therefore it is clear that such a heretic with regard to one article has no faith in the other articles, but only a kind of opinion in accordance with his own will. (Saint Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica, II-II, q. 5, a. 3)

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