CHILE
Yahoo!
Paulina ABRAMOVICH
May 11, 2018
Santiago (AFP) – Around 30 Chilean bishops have begun arriving in Rome for what is widely expected to be a dressing-down by Pope Francis over years of sexual abuse within the Chilean Church.
The bishops were joining Francis at the Vatican “with humility and hope,” the Chilean Bishops Conference said Thursday, ahead of talks beginning Monday that are likely to result in a major shake-up of the Chilean hierarchy.
Francis summoned the bishops to Rome in an April 12 letter saying he intended to discuss an investigation into an alleged cover-up by Bishop Juan Barros of abuse by pedophile priest Fernando Karadima during the 1980s and 1990s.
He requested their assistance in finding measures “to repair the scandal as much as possible and restore justice.”
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