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Pope Francis' visit to Chile in January of this year was tainted by the crisis of the Catholic Church produced at that time, mainly by the figure of the ex-bishop d & # 39; Osorno, Juan Barros, to whom he is accused of having covered the abuses perpetrated by the former pastor of El Bosque, Fernando Karadima
But the controversy continued and did not occur. was so accentuated over the course of the months that all the bishops submitted their resignations to the Pontiff at the Vatican, some of whom accepted Francisco.
The number of abuse charges against ministers of faith has grown exponentially throughout the country, a whirlwind to which was added the summons issued by the regional prosecutor of O & # 39; Higgins, Emiliano Arias, so that the head of the Church in Chile, the cardinal Ricardo Ezzati can testify before the prosecution as a defendant for concealment on August 21. [19] 659003] In a conversation with the Spanish newspaper El País, Arias said that with his letter to the Chilean faithful at the end of May, the Pope "opened the way to investigate the concealment of abuses" , despite the fact that after his Mbad at Iquique In an exclusive conversation with Radio Bío Bío, the bishop of Rome badured that all charges against Barros were "slanderous" and asked for evidence to prove them.
After the search and seizure of evidence of the Archdiocese of Santiago and the Ecclesiastical Tribunal, the arrest of former Foreign Minister Oscar Munoz, the Public Prosecutor's Office has a series of documents which confirm that many reports of abuse have only had a canonical court and that the ecclesiastical authorities have not brought the cases to justice.
a historical judgment and I hope we are able to establish that if some bishops had respected due diligence, avoiding a good deal of crimes of badual abuse against minors committed by Chilean religious ", explained the prosecutor, who invited the other victims to report if they did not do it.
" If they do not do it. Because of the foregoing, Arias directly blamed the bishops for his deficient and careless act would have impeded the criminal prosecution of the Church.
"Who is responsible for an organization and what happens in a territory? The Bishop Who suffer all the allegations of badual abuse against children? , girls and teenagers? For the bishop. They know the facts throughout the process, "added Arias
. In this way, the Attorney for O. Higgins criticized that " the system did not work ". In his opinion, because "the victims did not receive adequate attention, they were not believed, the investigations were not carried out."
"Obligations to send them all to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Vatican Faith, with an ineffective system of canonical justice (…). We know that Chilean religious have destroyed evidence of 39 Sexual Abuse " Accused
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