ROME
Crux
April 3, 2019
By Inés San Martín
You can take the pope out of Latin America, but, as it turns out, it’s much harder to take the Latin America out of the pope.
Once again over recent days, there have been several noteworthy developments in and around the church in Latin America, at least some which involve history’s first pontiff from the region either directly or indirectly.
A week after being appointed to replace a prelate being investigated by civil prosecutors for allegedly covering up sexual abuse, the apostolic administrator (interim leader) of Santiago, Chile, is in Rome to meet with the pope.
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