CHILE
Newsweek
June 11, 2018
By Jason Lemon
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of three Chilean bishops at the center of a child sexual abuse scandal involving the South American country’s clergy.
The leader of the Roman Catholic Church accepted the resignation of Bishop Juan Barros as well as those of two others in Chile, Archbishop Cristián Caro Cordero of Puerto Montt and Bishop Gonzalo Duarte García de Cortázar of Valparaíso, the church announced on Monday.
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