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is here, focusing on a situation in Costa Rica and Honduras<\/a><\/p>\n

Bishop San Casimiro acknowledged that in the mid-1990s, he freed Father V\u00e1squez to work abroad after the priest admitted to him that he had abused a 10-year-old altar boy. “When I found out he had this problem,” the bishop said, “I confronted him, and he said, ‘Yes, monsignor, I have this problem.’ ”<\/p>\n

The bishop said he had not recommended Father V\u00e1squez for work elsewhere after the priest was accused in a criminal complaint of abusing the boy. <\/p>\n

Bruce Harris, a child-protection advocate with Casa Alianza, a Catholic-affiliated charity with an office in Costa Rica, has been pressing the bishop and Cardinal Rodr\u00edguez to reveal what they know about Father V\u00e1squez. Neither has been forthcoming, he said. <\/p>\n

Mr. Harris recently bumped into Cardinal Rodr\u00edguez on an airplane and asked again for information. The cardinal said only that Father V\u00e1squez “left Honduras some time ago” and that he didn’t know where he’d gone, according to Mr. Harris. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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