A woman who says she and her sisters were abused by a longtime priest-friend of Pope Leo XIV is speaking out after he was recently granted a dispensation from priestly duties by the Vatican, raising the specter of a cover-up.
“We announce the initiation of legal actions before the competent canonical authorities against all ecclesiastical officials who participated in or were responsible for these acts of negligence,” said Ana María Quispe Díaz, who also requested “a personal audience with the Pope.”
Father Eleuterio Vásquez González, also known as “Lute,” is a priest of the Diocese of Chiclayo, Peru. Quispe Díaz has long maintained that Lute abused her and her two sisters. She expressed outrage over his dispensation.
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“This decision means that the facts we reported – which were never even minimally investigated by the Church – will now remain definitively unresolved,” Díaz said in a statement published in English by the New Daily Compass this weekend.
Díaz further exclaimed that “it is incomprehensible that instead of seeking the truth and repairing the victims, the decision was made to close the case through a papal grace that frees the abuser from facing the responsibility that corresponds to him, leaving us in a vulnerable situation with no reparation, where the only thing offered to us is payment for therapy.”
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