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February 5, 2018

Pope received letter reporting Bishop Barros in 2015, sex abuse survivor says

Bishop Juan Barros attends his first Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew in Osorno, Chile, Mar. 21, 2015. The Vatican said it had no reason to preclude Bishop Barros' nomination after protestors charged he had covered up for a priest whom the Vatican later found guilty of sexually abusing minors.
VATICAN – A Chilean survivor of sexual abuse says that he wrote a letter to Pope Francis in 2015, claiming that Bishop Juan Barros of Chile witnessed abuse perpetrated by his friend, Father Fernando Karadima, and that the Pope failed to act on the letter.
Published in International