The Vatican has laicized a close collaborator of the late Salvadorian
Archbishop Oscar Romero and two other priests of the Archdiocese of San
Salvador for crimes of sexual abuse, L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's semi-official newspaper, reported this week.
One of the three priests suspended since 2015 is Jesus
Delgado, 78, who was accused of abusing a girl for years. Delgado was
Romero’s former secretary and a close collaborator who went on to serve
as the vicar general of the Archdiocese of San Salvador. He later became
biographer and co-postulator of Romero’s case for beatification.