Washington D.C., May 18, 2010 / 01:05 am
After publishing an article last week that incriminated the U.S. apostolic nuncio by suggesting he regularly insults an alleged victim of clerical abuse in Washington D.C., Politics Daily removed the “disquieting” article and expressed regret they had published it.
On May 7, Annie Groer of Politics Daily wrote that a 67-year-old alleged sex-abuse victim named John Wojnowski accused Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to the U.S., of verbally assaulting him at least 15 times in the last 20 months.
According to Wojnowski, Archbishop Sambi has called him an “idiot,” a “loser” and a “fetid pervert” among other things during his walks on the street of the nunciature in Washington D.C. where Wojnowski protests.
Wojnowski, who claims he was molested in 1958 yet repressed the memory until 1997, has picketed the Vatican embassy for the past dozen years. The protestor often carries signs, the most recent of which reads, “Sociopaths Hide Pedophiles. Vatican Hides Pedophiles.” According to Groer, Susan Gibbs, spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Washington D.C., said that Wojnowski has been offered counseling and other assistance numerous times, although he claims he doesn't “have time for it.”