8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (2)
#1709543 at 2018-06-12 04:15:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2150: "he prays best who doesn't kno he is praying" Edition
Pope Francis accepts resignation of Chilean bishop accused of covering up child abuse
Pope Francis accepted the resignation of three bishops on Monday, one of whom was accused of covering up part of the child sex abuse scandal in Chile.
The Holy See confirmed that the pope accepted the resignations of Bishop Juan Barros of Osorno, Bishop Gonzalo Duarte of Valparaiso and Bishop Cristian Caro of Puerto Montt.
Bishop Barros was accused of protecting the Rev. Fernando Karadima, who was found guilt of sexual abusing minors.
The bishop denied ever having knowledge of Father Karadima's behavior.
The pope initially stood by Bishop Barros, but then later said he had made "grave errors in judgment" about the bishop, The Associated Press reported.
Bishop Duarte and Bishop Caro both resigned because they reached the required retirement age for bishops.
The news comes as the Roman Catholic Church continues investigations into child sex abuse claims in several countries. A probe into sexual abuse claims and the church's handling of the situation in Pennsylvania could be public by the end of June, AP reported.
https:// www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/11/pope-francis-accepts-resignation-of-chilean-bishop/
#1698296 at 2018-06-11 13:43:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2136: Stormy Forecæst
Pope begins purge in Chile's Catholic Church over sex abuse scandal
By Associated Press
Jun 11, 2018 | 4:45 AM
| VATICAN CITY
Pope Francis accepted the resignation Monday of the bishop at the center of Chile's clerical sex abuse scandal and two others, launching a purge of a Catholic Church that has lost its credibility under an avalanche of accusations of abuse and cover-up.
A Vatican statement said Francis had accepted the resignations of Bishop Juan Barros of Osorno, Bishop Gonzalo Duarte of Valparaiso and Bishop Cristian Caro of Puerto Montt. Of the three, only the 61-year-old Barros is below the retirement age of 75.
Francis named temporary leaders for each of the dioceses.
Barros has been at the center of Chile's growing scandal ever since Francis appointed him bishop of Osorno in 2015 over the objections of the local faithful, his own sex abuse prevention advisors and some of Chile's other bishops. They questioned Barros' suitability to lead given he had been a top lieutenant of Chile's most notorious predator priest and had been accused by victims of witnessing and ignoring their abuse.
Barros denied the charge, but he joined 30 of Chile's other active bishops in offering their resignations to Francis at an extraordinary Vatican summit last month. Francis had summoned Chile's church leaders to Rome after realizing he had made "grave errors in judgment" about Barros, whom he had defended strongly during his troubled visit to Chile in January.
Barros' removal, which had been expected, was met with praise by abuse survivors and Catholics in Osorno, who warned, though, that more resignations and actions must follow to heal the devastation wrought by the scandal.
"A new day has begun in Chile's Catholic Church!" tweeted Juan Carlos Cruz, the abuse survivor who denounced Barros for years and pressed for the Vatican to take action.
"I'm thrilled for all those who have fought to see this day," he said. "The band of delinquent bishops … begins to disintegrate today."
Francis realized he had misjudged the Chilean situation after meeting with Cruz and reading the 2,300-page report compiled by two leading Vatican investigators about the depth of Chile's scandal, which has devastated the credibility of the church in a once overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country in the pope's native Latin America.
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-vatican-chilean-bishops-resign-20180611-story.html