Nicolas Betticher wants the Federal Council to intervene with the Pope in favour of an independent Swiss court to deal with cases of abuse in the Catholic Church.
"In my opinion, only then will we have a chance of having an independent court," says Father Nicolas Betticher. Betticher is considered a whistleblower because he initiated an investigation into alleged abuse against three bishops and an abbot with a letter to the papal nunciature in Bern.
In an interview with the SonntagsZeitung newspaper on Sunday, the former vicar general of the diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg and current parish priest in Bern said that he would like to obtain a Swiss special right from the Pope in order to "finally credibly" deal with the abuse scandal that came to light in September. ...