Ezzati for camouflage charges: "I'm worried about the climate of slander"



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The Archbishop of Santiago, Ricardo Ezzati blames the climate of "slander" against the Chilean Catholic Church because of accusations of concealment of badual abuse within it, which multiplied in recent years months

The cardinal said to La Tercera that, in relation to complaints, " what worries me is the climate of slander that hurts people, the country and the truth: an evil that I believe urgently to overcome in social life "

He also mentioned the latest accusations that continue to aggravate the crisis of the church, such as the one he heard this month against the priest Hernán Enríquez bad, in Concepción, denounces that the family of the alleged victim claims that he sent him Ezzati in 2009, when he was archbishop in this city.

"I remember the fact: a denunciation involving the priest Hernán Enríquez, c When in Concepción there was a small seminary, closed several years before my arrival as an archbishop.After the complaint received, the Investigation in due form leads to the same conclusion as that already made in the civil forum: could not verify the configuration of the crime ". the accusation of a religious, who counted in Ciper – requesting the reservation of his identity – that in 2006, when Ezzati became Archbishop of Concepción, she l 39; informed "of the names of three priests, among them that of Hernán Enríquez, who maintained homobadual relations in a group in which lay and laity participated, who protected each other and who had access to pastoral and educational spaces frequented by young people. "

the badertions of the alleged religious to whom he refers, I can not say anything, not to know who he is from. act and to whom we speak, "condemned.

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