In a number of hours the uncommon and pleasant story of the bishop of Bogor, Monsignor Syukur, in Indonesia, who refused to be raised to the cardinalate from the Pope and requested to proceed the “progress within the priestly life”, thus transferring the Catholic world, it’s being finished a nightmare
The choice of Monsignor Paskalis Bruno Syukur could be associated to the truth that in his diocese circumstances of sexual abuse of minors have appeared which embrace native Church buildings and a “cover-up” which instantly impacts it.
The Roman newspaper “La Repubblica” publishes this Wednesday an extended report, based on which the information that the subsequent Consistory of 21 new cardinals on December 7, the place Monsignor Syukur would take part, has sparked robust controversy in Indonesia as a result of “The prelate allegedly protected the clergymen of the Diocese of Bogor who sexually abused minors.”
The Roman newspaper famous that “already in August 2020, the unbiased weekly “Tempo” wrote about two abuses that occurred within the province of West Java, between Jakarta and Bogor, one in a church towards an altar boy and the opposite in an orphanage run by the Church“.
Within the case of the orphanage”the victims of a friar who ran the establishment there could be some based on weekly witnesses. The cleric was reportedly arrested in 2019 and later launched.
The alleged abuser could be Brother Angelo Ngalangolawho “asserted that the orphanage was licensed by the diocese.”
Due to the testimonies of the victims The speculation of the existence of covers was rejected.
The shock of the scandal is doubly as a result of the Pope promoted him to cardinal and when Monsignor Syukur stated he most popular to “proceed to develop within the priestly life”, the pope was after all unaware of the conspiracy behind the gesture.
Born on March 27, 1962 in Flores Island, Indonesia, Syukur determined to turn into a priest and entered the minor seminary in Jakarta, the capital. He accomplished his philosophical research in Jakarta and continued his theological research on the College of Theology.
He studied for 3 years in Rome and in 2001 was appointed provincial minister of the Franciscan Order. On November 21, 2013 The Pope appointed him bishop of Bogar.