Vatican sanctions elderly Polish cardinal (CNA)

The Vatican has imposed stiff disciplinary measures on Cardinal Henryk Gulbinowicz, the 97-year-old former Archbishop of Wroclaw. He will be barred from public celebrations, forbidding to act as a bishop, deprived of a funeral service and burial in the city’s cathedral. The Vatican did not explain the reasons for the disciplinary action, but Cardinal Gulbinowicz had been accused of sexual abuse, as well as covering up abuse by other clerics.