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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A prominent candidate to succeed Pope John Paul II recently sheltered a priest who is an admitted child molester and now an international fugitive, the Dallas Morning News has learned.
Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez, who heads the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa, put the Rev. Enrique Vasquez to work in two remote parishes from last year until March. The priest had fled criminal accusations in his native Costa Rica in 1998, had served in at least two U.S. dioceses before running again and spending time at a clergy treatment center in Mexico.
Vasquez helped found a training center for Catholic lay people in the Honduran town of El Paraiso and served as the resident priest in the village of Guinope. He vanished from Guinope days ahead of police after child-protection activists in Costa Rica pressured their government to revive a languishing criminal case.
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