Mgr André-Joseph Léonard, archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels, gives a speech at the event Grandes Conferences Catholiques

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The Catholic Church in Belgium has been battered by scandals over the past year, and now its leader, the Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard of Brussels, has sparked a controversy with comments declaring that people afflicted with AIDS are receiving "a sort of immanent justice" for their sexual practices. Actually those comments were published in 2006 a book, but the version in flemish has just been published. Flemish journalists read the new book and the news were quickly spread by big news agencies all over the world.

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Location: Brussels, Belgium
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