Belgium’s victims of clerical abuse believe Church won’t change

TODAY in Belgium a Catholic priest, hidden by the Oblate fathers for the past decade, will hand himself over to police after Interpol issued what is termed a “red notice”, which requests information about his whereabouts.

He served a few months of a jail sentence in Canada where he had raped Inuit children in the remote region where he was preaching the word of God. He had continued to abuse children on his release and is now wanted in connection with other instances of abuse.

Today, the Catholic Church in Belgium will also hold a press conference in response to the report it commissioned into sexual abuse in the country.