SANTIAGO – The number of sexual abuse cases, involving Chilean church officials, has tripled since July with 119 open investigations underway in the Prosecutor’s Office. The Sexual Crimes Unit of the country’s Prosecutor’s Office has […]
SANTIAGO – A Chilean bishop’s office in Rancagua has dismissed 14 priests suspected of covering up cases of child abuse by pedophile priest Fernando Karadima in 1980s and ’90s. The scandal has rocked Pope Francis’ […]
SANTIAGO – All of Chile’s 34 Roman Catholic bishops announced their resignation Friday in the wake of a child sex scandal and cover-up in Chile. “We, all the bishops present in Rome, have tendered our […]
SANTIAGO – Pope Francis has appointed the Vatican’s most respected sex crimes expert to investigate allegations that Bishop Juan Barros covered up clergy crimes against minors in Chile. The Vatican said Tuesday that Maltese Bishop […]
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