SANTIAGO (CHILE)
US News
June 5, 2018
By Daniela Mohor
The child abuse charges in the country test the Vatican´s zero-tolerance policy toward sex abuse by clergymen.
James Hamilton recalls clearly the time in late April of this year when he traveled to the Vatican to visit Pope Francis and the pontiff shared a story from his earlier visit to Chile. A papal mass held at the port city of Iquique drew a crowd of 90,000, less than half of the 200,000 the pope’s entourage expected.
“The pope looked around and saw there was nobody,” says Hamilton, a physician who was one of the first Chilean victims of clerical sexual abuse during childhood invited to meet the pope. He and two other men allege that the abuses were covered up by the Catholic Church for decades.
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