Salesians

Belgian Salesians defend decision to send convicted pedophile to Africa
- Nov 28, 2019
Belgium’s Salesian order defended its decision to send a priest convicted of child abuse to work with Caritas in Central African Republic, where he has been accused of abusing children again.

By Jonathan Luxmoore
Vatican charity knew Central African Republic pedophilia concerns in 2017
- Nov 23, 2019
The Vatican’s Caritas Internationalis charity says it learned in 2017 of pedophilia concerns involving its Central African Republic director, but left it for his superiors to investigate and he remained in place and in ministry until this year.

By Nicole Winfield
Caritas expresses outrage over former director in Africa accused of abuse
- Nov 21, 2019
Caritas Internationalis, the Vatican-based confederation of 165 national Catholic charities, has expressed sadness and outrage over incidents of child abuse by a Belgian Salesian priest who had been the national director of Caritas in the Central African Republic.

By Carol Glatz

Synod member, weary of married priest debate, rues getting stuck in ’70s
- Oct 11, 2019
Father Martin Lasarte from Uruguay, a Salesian who served for 25 years as a missionary in Angola, has spent the past four visiting much of the Amazon as coordinator of the missionary efforts of the order in Latin America and Africa, and he says he’s tired of the conversation about the viri probati already.

By Inés San Martín
Five possibilities for a grand Catholic experiment in ‘open innovation’
- Aug 18, 2019
John Allen gives 5 possible uses for a former papal summer residence and invites you to submit some as well.

By John L. Allen Jr.
A novel contest for the future of an erstwhile papal ‘oasis’
- Aug 17, 2019
The Salesians have launched not a sale but a contest: They’ve hired a consulting firm to solicit ideas about a creative new use for a property in northern Italy used by Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI for their summer vacations.

By John L. Allen Jr.