BONN (GERMANY)
Deutsche Welle
May 23, 2018
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 the 1980s and ’90s. The scandal has rocked Pope Francis’ papacy.
ourteen priests engulfed in Chile’s Catholic church sex abuse scandal were stripped of their priestly duties Tuesday, the bishop’s office in the city of Rancagua announced Tuesday.
“Fourteen priests no longer are allowed to carry out their duties… These priests have taken part in actions that may be civilian crimes as well as within the church,” the bishop’s office said in a statement.
The moves comes after 34 bishops offered on Friday to resign en masse over the child sex abuse scandal after being summoned to meet with Pope Francis in the Vatican — the first time a country’s entire senior Roman Catholic prelate has offered step aside all at once.
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