CHILE
BBC News
September 28, 2018
Pope Francis has removed the priest at the centre of Chile’s clerical sex abuse scandal.
In a statement, the Vatican said the pontiff had defrocked Fernando Karadima for “the good of the Church”.
The 88-year-old former priest had previously been sanctioned to a lifetime of “penance and prayer” for having sexually abused minors.
In June, the Pope accepted the resignations of three Chilean bishops in the wake of the scandal.
They included the controversial Juan Barros who was accused of covering up sexual abuse committed by Karadima in the 1980s and 1990s.
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