Papal envoy Scicluna’ s first day in Chile, over 20 audiences scheduled

ROME (ITALY)
Vatican Insider

February 20, 2018

By Luis Badilla

After the meeting with Cruz in New York, the archbishop will listen to Murillo and Hamilton, two other victims of Karadima. Scheduled a meeting with a delegation of faithful from Osorno who oppose Barros

Pope Francis’ envoy to Chile, Monsignor Charles Scicluna, who has been investigating possible new elements in the “Karadima-Barros” affair since 17 February, arrived yesterday morning in Santiago de Chile. Today, in the Nunciature headquarters (and until Friday 23 February) the envoy will begin his delicate mission in the country: first of all, he will meet and listen to the other two people, out of three, who accuse Monsignor Juan Barros of having covered up the sexual abuse committed by the priest Fernando Karadima, of whom he was a disciple in the Fraternity of the parish of El Bosque.

Scicluna has already met, last Saturday 17th in New York, in the rectory of the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, the witness and victim Juan Carlos Cruz. Today at 4:00 am local time (it will be evening in Europe), the Archbishop of the Maltese diocese of La Valletta, together with Father Jordi Bertomeu, the Spanish official of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, will meet with the other two victims, José Andrés Murillo and James Hamilton.

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