The recently ousted head of the Vatican's main charitable organization is breaking six months of silence to denounce his removal as a 'brutal power grab.'
FILE - Aloysius John, Secretary General of Caritas Internationalis, speaks during a press conference to present a document on the 5th anniversary of Pope Francis' encyclical "Laudato si" calling on the world to act to stop the human destruction of the planet, at the Vatican's press room, Thursday, June 18, 2020. The recently ousted head of the Vatican's main charitable organization is breaking six months of silence to denounce his removal as a “brutal power grab.
The drama is playing out as the Caritas General Assembly meets May 11-16 to elect new leaders following more than a decade of turmoil and a damaging sex abuse scandal in central Africa. The gathering is a key step in Francis’ efforts to renew the Vatican-based confederation of 162 national chapters that is one of the most visible aid groups in the world.
John said nothing at the time of his ouster. But on the eve of the assembly to elect his successor, he has broken six months of silence and penned an eight-page open letter to the Caritas network in a bid to tell his side of the story. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the letter, as well as an accompanying one from John’s predecessor that similarly blasted the “brutality” of the sackings.
“We are preparing for it to be a time of joyful encounter, of sincere dialogue and mutual listening, aimed at building together the future path of fraternal cooperation, at the service of the poor and the most vulnerable,” Caritas said in a statement to AP. Though he eventually won the vote, John didn’t have a strong mandate to lead and was immediately plunged into a crisis over a sex abuse scandal in the Central African Republic dating from the term of his predecessor, Michel Roy.
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