IRELAND
RTE News
By Joe Little
Religious & Social Affairs Correspondent
The leader of Chile’s Catholic hierarchy has called for a “drastic solution” that could include bishops’ resignations a day after Pope Francis acknowledged “grave mistakes” in his handling of a sexual abuse crisis.
At a landmark meeting of the church leadership in Chile, whose members the pope has summoned to Rome to discuss the scandal, the president of the country’s episcopal conference said change was inevitable.
“It’s possible that the pope will ask some (bishops) to leave their dioceses … there must be a drastic solution, strong and decisive, that is for certain,” Archbishop Santiago Silva told local radio station Cooperativa.
Yesterday, Irish clerical abuse survivor, Marie Collins, called on Pope Francis to call Chilean bishops to account.
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