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’ […]
MELBOURNE – The archbishop of Adelaide, Philip Wilson has been found guilty of concealing child sexual abuse during the 1970s in the Hunter region of New South Wales. Magistrate Robert Stone handed down the verdict […]
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 […]
LIMA – More than one million people turned out Sunday for Pope Francis’ final Mass in Peru, giving him a warm and heartfelt farewell that contrasted sharply with the outcry he caused in neighboring Chile […]
SANTIAGO – Tempers are flaring up in Chile after Pope Francis accused the victims of a pedophile priest of ‘slander’ on Thursday. The pontiff said there was “no proof” for their claims that abuse by […]
SANTIAGO – Pope Francis has made history by performing a wedding ceremony for two flight attendants on board a plane travelling between cities in Chile on his last day of visiting the southern country. Paula […]
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