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April 12, 2019

Vatican imposes 10-year suspension on Legionaries priest for abuse

Father John O'Reilly, center, of the Legionaries of Christ arrives at a court in Santiago, Chile, Oct. 15. The court found Father O'Reilly, who moved to Chile from Ireland in 1985, guilty of sexually abusing a pre-teen girl at the private Colegio Cumbres in the affluent neighborhood of Las Condes between 2007 and 2009.

VATICAN CITY - The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has banned a Legionaries of Christ priest from publicly exercising his priestly ministry for 10 years after he was convicted in Chile of sexually abusing a young girl.

Published in Vatican