SNAP complaint against top cardinal involves priest defrocked for sexual misconduct

ROME – A victims’ advocacy group has made a complaint against a top-ranking cardinal based in part on a case packaged and brought forward by an ex-priest defrocked over charges of sexual misconduct.

The former priest in question, Ricardo Coronado, has been accused of holding a long-standing grudge against the cardinal, American Robert Prevost, currently the prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Bishops, and who also has ties to the Sodalitium Christiane Vitae (SCV), a Peruvian society...