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By Ben Mathis-Lilley

An upsetting report published Thursday by the Global Post documents the cases of several Catholic priests who have left areas where they’ve admitted to or been credibly accused of child sexual abuse only to continue their careers in South America:

Even as Pope Francis has touted reform of the Vatican’s safeguards against child abuse, GlobalPost has found that the Catholic Church has allowed allegedly abusive priests to slip off to parts of the world where they would face less scrutiny from prosecutors and the media.

In a yearlong investigation, we tracked down and confronted five such priests. All were able to continue working for the church despite serious accusations against them. When we found them, all but one continued to lead Mass, mostly in remote, poor communities in South America.

The current pope has said in a letter to bishops worldwide…