VATICAN CITY
Rappler
May 18, 2018
AFP
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis on Thursday, May 17, promised “changes” to the Chilean church to “restore justice” following a child abuse scandal that has come to haunt his papacy.
However in a short letter addressed to 34 Chilean bishops, whom the Argentinian pontiff met in groups from Tuesday, May 15, to Thursday, he gave no indication of eventual consequences for those suspected of keeping silent about the abuse.
“I thank you for the full availability that everyone has shown to adhere to and collaborate in all the changes and resolutions that we will have to implement in the short, medium and long term, necessary to restore justice and ecclesiastical communion,” the pope said in a statement in Spanish circulated by the Vatican.
He said the meetings had been a “frank” exchange about “the grave events that have damaged ecclesiastical communion and weakened the work of the Church of Chile in recent years”.
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