Pope defrocks two Chilean bishops over child abuse claims

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Pope defrocks two Chilean bishops over child abuse claims

13 October 2018

Pope Francis has stripped two Chilean bishops of their duties as priests amid claims that they are linked to the sexual abuse of minors.

They are Francisco José Cox Huneeus, archbishop emeritus of La Serena, and Marco Antonio Órdenes Fernández, archbishop emeritus of Iquique.

The Vatican issued a statement on their defrocking after a meeting between the pontiff and the president of Chile.

The decision could not be appealed against, it said on Saturday.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45850354

[MineralMan]

1. Il Papa says: "Well, that's all fixed now. Carry on!"

[Voltaire2]

2. Defenestration would be better.

Have I ever mentioned that the RCC is a global criminal cartel?

[Lordquinton]

3. Two down

thousands and thousands to go.

[Act_of_Reparation]

4. Pope Francis is sending a clear message.

"We won't tolerate this shit... for more than a few years."

[Permanut]

5. Well, you just wait until February..

Francis is going to have a meeting of some of the muckety mucks to "..discuss preventing clergy sex abuse and protecting children — evidence that he realizes the scandal is global and that inaction threatens to undermine his legacy."

THEN everything will be just fine.


[link:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pope-calls-february-meeting-key-bishops-sexual-abuse-n908751|

[Act_of_Reparation]

6. Took him five years to figure that out, did it?

Or was his schedule booked so solid all this time and between washing feet and bashing gays this was the earliest he could get to it?

[trotsky]

7. Vatican statement:

http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2018/10/13/181013d.html

The Holy Father has removed from the clerical state Francisco José Cox Huneeus, archbishop emeritus of La Serena, Chile, member of the Institute of Schoenstatt Fathers, and Marco Antonio Órdenes Fernández, bishop emeritus of Iquique, Chile.

Anyone know exactly what "removed from the clerical state" entails? Are they now off to the ol' "lifetime of penance and prayer" at a lovely apartment in Vatican City?