Delft was laicized and formally ousted from the Salesian order on Sept. 9, 2021, a decision that was reported to Francis on April 9, 2022, Archbishop Franco Coppola, the Vatican ambassador to Belgium, said in an email Thursday to AP.
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“I found the best that I could hope to find,” Coppola said of the trip, which winds through dangerous roads that had until recent days been blocked by improvised trenches and hijacked vehicles.
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