IRELAND/ARGENTINA
Irish Times
Patsy McGarry
Pope Francis has phoned a man in Argentina following reports the man was sexually abused by an Irish priest who was chaplain at an elite Christian Brothers’ school in Buenos Aires.
Allegations have also been made against an Irish Christian Brother who served there.
Twenty other former pupils have made similar abuse allegations against the priest and the brother at the school, while at least four former pupils have given media in Argentina accounts of witnessing or suffering abuse there.
Both alleged abusers are deceased but their names are known to The Irish Times.
Argentina’s president Mauricio Macri is a past pupil of the same school, the Colegio Cardenal Newman, opened by the Irish Christian Brothers in 1948.
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