This bishop goes into hiding:
BRUSSELS–Belgium’s disgraced bishop Roger Vangheluwe will go into seclusion away from the diocese of Bruges, where a paedophilia scandal forced his April resignation, the Belgian press reported Sunday.
In a statement issued by the Belgian bishop’s conference, Vangheluwe, 73, said he was leaving the Westvleteren abbey where he had sought refuge for several months to withdraw “to another place, away from the Bruges diocese.”
Vangheluwe was the first Belgian bishop to resign in April after admitting to sexually abusing his nephew between 1973 and 1986 in a wave of pedophile scandals that has rocked the Catholic Church since last November.
“I will continue in discretion to ponder my life and my future,” he said.
Blithe Spirit 