SANTIAGO – A Chilean appeals court ruled on Wednesday that the Catholic Church should pay compensation to three victims in a sex abuse case involving former Santiago parish priest Fernando Karadima, a decision that could […]
SANTIAGO – The Ninth Chamber of the Court of Appeals of Santiago has ordered the Chilean Church to compensate the victims of Fernando Karadima, an influential pastor who for decades sexually abused children and adolescents […]
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 in Chile questioned Roman Catholic bishop Juan Barros as part of an investigation into sex abuse allegations against former military chaplain Pedro Quiroz. Barros, whose resignation as bishop of Osorno was accepted […]
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 – A week after assuming the leadership of the Chilean Government, President-elect Sebastián Piñera addressed different issues, including allegations of sexual abuse of religious. In that line, the next president criticized the Chilean Catholic […]
SANTIAGO – The Vatican’s top abuse investigator, Archbishop Charles Scicluna, has been taken to hospital shortly after his arrival in Chile to investigate a controversial bishop, the country’s worst priestly predator, the Catholic Church announced […]
SANTIAGO – The archbishop of Malta, Charles Scicluna, has begun the investigation ordered by Pope Francis to clarify whether Chilean bishop Juan Barros concealed the sexual abuse of minors committed by nearly 80 priests. Scicluna […]
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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