Angelo Bagnasco

Vatican clears aide to John Paul II of negligence claims

By NICOLE WINFIELDApril 22, 2022 GMT

ROME (AP) — A Vatican investigation into allegations that the former top aide to St. John Paul II was negligent in handling sex abuse claims in his native Poland has cleared him of wrongdoing, the Vatican’s embassy in Poland said Friday.

Vatican probes alleged abuse negligence by Polish cardinal

June 26, 2021 GMT

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Vatican’s embassy in Poland said Saturday that a Holy See envoy spent 10 days in the country checking reports of alleged negligence by a retired archbishop of Krakow who had served as personal secretary to the late Pope St.