ROME
Crux
June 6, 2018
By Inés San Martín
In what amounts to Pope Francis’s latest attempt to resolve a massive clerical sexual abuse crisis, the Chilean bishops’ conference announced Wednesday that his top two investigators will return to Chile June 14-17, visiting a diocese where a controversial bishop has been accused of covering up acts of abuse.
The bishops’ statement said that Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, a former official of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Spanish Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu, a current official of the congregation, will be in the diocese over those three days.
Osorno is the diocese led by Bishop Juan Barros, appointed to the position by Pope Francis in 2015. That move caused an uproar and triggered Chile’s present crisis, which is seeing new revelations and allegations emerge almost every day.
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