VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has stripped two retired Chilean bishops from the priesthood after they were caught up in the South American country’s widening sexual abuse crisis. The Vatican named the two men as […]
SANTIAGO/VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has stripped the priest at the centre of Chile’s clerical sex abuse scandal from his services. In a statement, the Vatican said the pontiff had defrocked Fernando Karadima for “the […]
SANTIAGO – Prosecutors and police in Chile raided two Roman Catholic Church offices on Wednesday to seize documents related to a sexual abuse and cover-up scandal that has dogged the institution for months. The move […]
SANTIAGO – The president of the Chilean Catholic Church’s Commission for the Prevention of Abuses has resigned after acknowledging he was slow to investigate allegations of misconduct in his diocese. The church’s Episcopal Conference announced […]
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