ROME – As a Feb. 21-24 Vatican summit on the protection of minors approaches, ferment related to clerical sexual abuse continues to percolate in Pope Francis’s native Argentina.

The episodes in question range from a bishop given refuge in the Vatican who is now facing charges, to a monastery in trouble and a bishops’ conference president with great expectations for the pope’s assembly.

The Zanchetta affair

A prosecutor’s office in the northern province of Salta, where Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta served until his resignation in 2017, confirmed through a statement on Monday that an alleged victim had come forward with a charge against the prelate.

“Several measures were arranged in order to clarify the allegations, and it is not ruled out that new complaints against the former bishop may be added,” the judicial body said in a statement.

Zanchetta resigned without explanation as the bishop of Oran in northwestern Argentina on…