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Editor’s note: Pope Francis greets Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, former Bishop of Oran, Argentina, at the Vatican. (Photo credit: Vatican Media/CNA)

By William Kilpatrick, Crisis Magazine, July 11, 2019

William KilpatrickThanks to Pope Francis, the Vatican now joins the growing list of the world’s sanctuary cities. If you’re a clergyman wanted by civil authorities or Church authorities in your native land, the Vatican will offer you a safe haven and, quite possibly, a cushy job.

When Monsignor Battista Ricca got in trouble over a string of sex scandals, he was rewarded with a prominent position in the Vatican Bank. And when Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta of Oran, Argentina, was credibly accused of abusing seminarians, he was whisked off to Rome and ensconced in a position specially created for him in the Vatican’s other major financial institution, the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See.

Now comes news that Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra of Maracaibo, Venezuela was installed in October as the Substitute of the Vatican Secretariat of State, making him the Vatican’s third most powerful prelate. This despite numerous accusations of serial sex abuse, possibly including a “sex game” that led to the deaths of two men….Read the entire article….crisismagazine.com/2019/corruption-in-the-church-bad-news-and-hopeful-possibilities