SANTIAGO – The Vatican dismissed a Chilean deacon, accused of sexually abusing minors in the town of Las Cabras in central Chile, the archdiocese of the city of Rancagua said Friday. Luis Rubio was arrested […]
SANTIAGO – Police in Chile’s capital city have arrested a former Roman Catholic Church official for sexually abusing children, according to a state prosecutor. Oscar Muñoz, who served as chancellor of the archdiocese of Santiago, […]
VATICAN CITY/SANTIAGO – Pope Francis on Thursday removed another two Chilean bishops over the clerical sex abuse scandal that has rocked the South American country. Francis accepted the resignation of Rancagua Bishop Alejandro Goic Karmelic, […]
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 – 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’ […]
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