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Vatican review clears Cardinal of sexual abuse allegations

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Cardinal John Dew (L).

Cardinal John Dew can now resume his public duties after a Vatican-led review concluded that no further inquiry into sexual abuse allegations against him is necessary.

The former Archbishop of Wellington faced allegations dating back to the 1970s, which emerged in May last year.

Following church protocols the Cardinal stepped aside from his duties while both police and the Vatican conducted investigations. Police found insufficient evidence to lay charges, and the Vatican review also recommended no further action.

Archbishop of Wellington Paul Martin confirmed that the review’s completion allows Cardinal Dew to return to his public church activities.

The allegations were made public in March, and despite Cardinal Dew’s legal efforts to prevent the story’s broadcast, Newshub reported the accusations, which originated from Steven and Linda Carvell, who claimed the abuse occurred at St Joseph’s Orphanage in Upper Hutt in 1977.

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  1. @ 3 comments above:
    Where is the relevance? And are you privy to all the details before making flippant judgements?

  2. I am not defending this man, but to give another opinion.
    I was educated by Dominican nuns, (no lay teachers) and probably spent more time in my school years in the company of my Catholic school friends and nuns and priests than I did with my family.
    I state unequivocally that these religious people were good people. They all had a vocation – a faith and deep belief in the goodness of Jesus. They were working mainly with schoolchildren and not once could I, nor any of my school friends, accuse them of any but the best of intentions towards their charges.
    My school years were not only where I was taught the educational curriculum, (and a pretty good game of tennis by one of the parish priests who also coached the netball team) but where I, and most of us, absorbed a love of good music, art and literature and developed an aesthetic which has protected us against the media machine of today. For that I give daily thanks. Whether we like it or not, it was Catholicism through the ages that has provided us with cathedrals, sculptures, art works and a truly magnificent history which has not been surpassed except perhaps by Orthodoxy.
    There are bad eggs in every religion but Catholicism bears the brunt of the hatred because it was Catholicism that provided many of the educational and social services operating in practically every area of every western country at that time – for which the governments of said countries were more than grateful.
    May I state I am NOT a Judeo-Christian – whatever that is, considering the Old and the New Testaments are irrevocably antagonistic to each other.

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