DENVER (CO)
Crux
June 3, 2018
By Inés San Martín
Rome – After meeting with Pope Francis for more than four hours, a second group of Chilean sex abuse victims, joined by priests who’ve supported them for 20 years, said they’re “trustful and hopeful” about reforms he’s begun in their Church, where new allegations of clerical sexual abuse arise virtually every day.
Francis met the nine Chileans, two of them laity, on Saturday. Of the seven priests, five are victims of the country’s most notorious pedophile priest, Father Fernando Karadima. It hasn’t been announced which ones in the group are victims of sexual abuse versus abuses of power and conscience.
The group is staying in the Santa Marta, the residence on Vatican grounds where Francis has lived since the beginning of his pontificate.
“Having spoken with the Holy Father and seeing the renewal through a synodal path that he’s undertaken, we are completely trusting and hopeful about what he’s doing,” said Father Eugenio de la Fuente, one of Karadima’s victims.
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