Bishop Delmas, Bishop of Angers, has more common sense than Bishop Kerimel, Bishop of Toulouse. While the latter persisted for a month and a half in promoting a priest convicted of raping a minor as chancellor, against his own faithful, common sense, and even mercy, which he attempted to rewrite in his own way, the Bishop of Angers, a few days after the media coverage of the appointment of a priest convicted of child pornography, renounced the appointment of him as a chancellery notary—a position in which canon law requires people to be “above suspicion”—and stripped him of his other duties.
It didn’t take the CEF writing to the Bishop of Angers—a historic step if ever there was one—or another bishop stepping up to the plate: after the media coverage of the affair, and despite the fact that the diocese, which was on vacation, was largely absent, the bishop took responsibility: “Aware that the responsibilities entrusted to him, including that of notary and delegate for the social protection of the clergy, could cause misunderstanding and were likely to add to the confusion of the faithful, Bishop Emmanuel Delmas and the priest in question decided by mutual agreement to relinquish them. His responsibilities ceased as of Tuesday, August 12,” Ouest-France reports.
Mediapart even states on this subject that the diocese decided “to remove from him the various diocesan responsibilities they had previously entrusted to him.” The prelate is not only resigning from his newly acquired position as delegate for the social protection of the clergy, he is also renouncing older positions he had held since completing his two-year prison sentence, four of which were suspended.
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