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Pope Francis Accepts Resignation Of Three Chilean Bishops: Vatican

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Church administrators were appointed to run all three diocese.

(Reuters)Vatican City:  Pope Francis has accepted the resignations of three Chilean bishops following sex abuse scandals, including Bishop Juan Barros of Osorno, the city at the centre of the uproar, the Vatican said on Monday.In an unprecedented move, all Chile's 34 bishops offered to resign en masse last month after attending a crisis meeting with the pope over allegations of a cover-up of sexual abuse in the South American nation.It was not immediately clear if Monday's move meant the pope would not accept any of the other resignations.Besides Barros, the pope also agreed to the departures of Cristian Caro Cordero, bishop of Puerto Montt, and Gonzalo Duarte Garcia de Cortazar, bishop of Valparaiso.Church administrators were appointed to run all three diocese.Pope Francis has promised Chilean Catholics scarred by a culture of clergy sexual abuse that "never again" would the Church ignore them or the cover-up of abuse in their country.The scandal revolves around Father Fernando Karadima, who was found guilty in a Vatican investigation in 2011 of abusing boys in Santiago in the 1970s and 1980s.

Now 87 and living in a nursing home in Chile, he has always denied any wrongdoing.Victims accused Barros of having witnessed the abuse but doing nothing to stop it.

Barros has denied the allegations.The Vatican's most experienced sexual abuse investigator, Archbishop Charles Scicluna visited Chile earlier this year to look into the scandal.

He has been sent back to Chile to gather more information.© Thomson Reuters 2018(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by TheIndianSubcontinent staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)




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