“Painful form of resentment”: Rik Torfs lashes out to former priest Rik Devillé, who calls election new pope “disaster”

Rik Devillé, who takes it up for the victims of sexual abuse in the church, responds in anxious and emotionally to the choice of the new pope. According to the priest at Rust, Leo XIV, when he was still Cardinal, would have protected priests who abused children. “A disaster,” he calls it. Church lawyer Rik Torfs does not agree with Devillé. “He is not allowed to accuse anyone of serious facts that have not yet been proven.”

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