SANTIAGO (CHILE)
Catholic News Service
August 6, 2018
By Jane Chambers,
Chile’s bishops acknowledged they had “failed to fulfill our duty by not listening, believing, attending or accompanying the victims of grave sins” after a five-day meeting to discuss the clergy sexual abuse crisis rocking the country.
Bishop Santiago Silva of the Military Diocese of Chile, president of the bishops’ conference, also apologized to abuse survivors for the bishops’ failure to “react in time to the painful sexual abuse and abuse of power and authority” as the general assembly concluded Aug. 3 in Punta de Tralca on the Pacific Coast.
He outlined a series of steps the bishops would take as they released “Declaration, Decisions and Commitments of the Bishops Conference of Chile,” a set of national guidelines for responding to abuse allegations. The guidelines were developed during the assembly.
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