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This Feb. 15, 2007 file photo shows then Bishop of Bruges Roger Vangheluwe, in Bruges, Belgium. Pope Francis has defrocked a notorious Belgian bishop who admitted 14 years ago that he sexually abused his nephew but faced no Vatican punishment. (AP Photo/Peter Maenhoudt, file)

Belgian bishop defrocked 14 years after admitting to abusing nephew

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

** FILE ** Bishop Roger Vangheluwe of Bruges, Belgium, pictured here in February 2007, was Belgium's longest serving bishop when he stepped down on Friday, April 23, 2010, after admitting to sexually abusing a young boy about 25 years ago. The resignation of the 74-year-old bishop was the first in Belgium after a child-abuse scandal began engulfing the Roman Catholic Church in 2010. (AP Photo/Peter Maenhoudt, File)

Vatican sanctions Belgian bishop who abused nephew

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Belgian cardinal: I was ‘naive’ to meet victim

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