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Eugene

(62,671 posts) Sat Oct 13, 2018, 12:25 PM Oct 2018

Pope defrocks two Chilean bishops over child abuse claims

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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Pope defrocks two Chilean bishops over child abuse claims (Original Post) Eugene Oct 2018 OP

Il Papa says: "Well, that's all fixed now. Carry on!" MineralMan Oct 2018 #1

Defenestration would be better. Voltaire2 Oct 2018 #2

Two down Lordquinton Oct 2018 #3

Pope Francis is sending a clear message. Act_of_Reparation Oct 2018 #4

Well, you just wait until February.. Permanut Oct 2018 #5

Took him five years to figure that out, did it? Act_of_Reparation Oct 2018 #6

Vatican statement: trotsky Oct 2018 #7

MineralMan

(147,622 posts)

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

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Oct 13, 2018, 01:22 PM

Oct 2018

Voltaire2

(14,724 posts)

2. Defenestration would be better.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Oct 13, 2018, 02:12 PM

Oct 2018

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

Lordquinton

(7,886 posts)

3. Two down

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sun Oct 14, 2018, 12:49 AM

Oct 2018

thousands and thousands to go.

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)

4. Pope Francis is sending a clear message.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2018, 08:10 AM

Oct 2018

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

Permanut

(6,658 posts)

5. Well, you just wait until February..

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Oct 16, 2018, 05:21 AM

Oct 2018

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.

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

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)

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

Reply to Permanut (Reply #5)

Tue Oct 16, 2018, 07:39 AM

Oct 2018

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

(49,533 posts)

7. Vatican statement:

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Oct 16, 2018, 08:00 AM

Oct 2018

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?

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