ROME
Crux
August 11, 2018
By Inés San Martín
A former Chilean Catholic priest is denying charges of sexual abuse despite a ruling from the Vatican, insisting that it was his bishop, not him, who had the problem.
Bishop Gonzalo Duarte is trying to “clean his image” at the expense of former priest Jaime da Fonseca, says the defrocked man who was removed from priestly ministry by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy earlier this year.
According to a statement from the Diocese of Valparaiso, the congregation received an investigation in May presented by Duarte, who’s been accused not only of covering up for priests such as Da Fonseca, but also of having himself committed abuse.
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