Spain: 10 priests indicted in abuse case of interest to pope

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Source: Associated Press

1 hour ago

MADRID (AP) — A judge in the southern Spanish city of Granada has indicted 10 priests and two Catholic lay workers in a sex abuse case that prompted Pope Francis to call one of the alleged victims.

According to the indictment filed Tuesday, the 12 are suspected of abusing four teenage boys in a priest's parochial home between 2004 and 2007. They are free on bail pending trial.

Francis in November told reporters he received a letter documenting the abuse from one of the alleged victims and then called him, telling him to report it in person at the Granada diocese.

Francis also said he wrote to the bishop and pressed him to launch an investigation.

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1. Time to excommunicate all the pedophiles who tarnish the reputation of the clergy as a whole

The "priests'" reputations are less important than protecting the smallest and weakest among us.

Forget the investigations. Just defrock'em.

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2. If it was the previous Pope, he'd just cover this up

like he did with hundreds of other cases. So glad that jerk is gone from the papacy.

[itcfish]

3. I Like the Pope More and More Each Day!

So Glad that Razi the Nazi is gone!