‘Brother’s keeper?’ What an Ivory Coast case asks about clericalism

What is the greater scandal: crime and sin, or drawing attention to it?

The Vatican announced this week that the former bishop of the Ivory Coast’s Diocese of Man has been transferred to an auxiliary position in another diocese. A move which appears to draw to a close a simmering two year dispute.

Bishop Gaspard Béby Gnéba. Credit: Vatican media.

Since 2008, the diocese had been led since Bishop Gaspard Béby Gnéba, 63.

But the…