P. Santiago Caballero
Diocese: Archdiocese of Lima, Peru
In August 2025, The Pillar quoted an unnamed source saying that Caballero “has had at least 10 allegations against him for abuse of minors.” The priest reportedly had been suspended from ministry in 2014 by Lima archbishop Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani. According to another unnamed Pillar source, when Cardinal Carlos Castillo succeeded Cipriani in January 2019, he fully reinstated Caballero to ministry, after which there were additional allegations against Caballero of sexual abuse. The Pillar reported that according to “senior archdiocesan sources in Peru,” the Vatican had commissioned an investigation into allegations of financial misconduct and cover-up by Castillo.
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