Archbishop Charles Scicluna is known as careful and caring, but he’s still a man of the institution.
By Chico Harlan Chico Harlan Rome bureau chief covering southern Europe and sometimes parts beyond Email Bio Follow May 12 at 3:56 PM MDINA, Malta — His missions begin with a phone call from the pope. “Do me a favor,” Pope Francis tends to say, and then Archbishop Charles Scicluna steels himself, packs his bags and books a flight to another country where something terrible has happened.
In interviews in his home country of Malta and inside the Vatican — where documents on the table are labeled in Latin “secreta” — Scicluna said he “hoped and prayed” that the institution, during his lifetime, can “become an example of best practices” for responding to and preventing abuse. “I’ve been telling my story and dealing with church officials forever,” Cruz said. “It was the first time I felt empathy.”
“You have your own ideas of how things should proceed,” Scicluna said. “But you know that you are not the owner of what you are doing.” Scicluna traveled to Syria in 2008 to investigate a bishop. He was ordered to Scotland in 2014 in the aftermath of abuse claims against Cardinal Keith O’Brien. All of those investigations led to some form of church punishment.
“People invariably make the link with same-sex attractions,” Scicluna said. Vatican traditionalists argue that the hidden homosexuality of some priests is a major underlying reason for the abuse crisis. Scicluna has been prodded several times by journalists from conservative Catholic outlets to agree, but he has always stopped short. Studies have found no correlation between sexual orientation and abuse.
Francis has since dramatically reversed his position on Chile, apologizing for “grave errors,” inviting three Chilean abuse survivors to the Vatican, and then calling Chile’s 34 bishops to Rome, where each submitted a letter of resignation.
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