THE Vatican on Friday named a successor to the bishop of Bruges, Roger Vangheluwe, who resigned after admitting child sex abuse. In a statement, the Vatican said Pope Benedict XVI named Jozef De Kesel in place of 73-year-old Vangheluwe, who resigned in April from his Bruges post after admitting sexually abusing a boy for years.
De Kesel was until now the bishop of the Bulna diocese and auxiliary at the Mechelen-Brussels archdiocese near Brussels, the Belgian Catholic Church headquarters raided by police on Thursday amid fresh accusations of child sex abuse.SIC: ST