Many watched in disbelief: There he was, Pope Francis, calling people in Osorno, a city in southern Chile, “dumb” for protesting against a bishop accused of being complicit in clerical sexual abuse.
“The
Osorno community is suffering because it’s dumb,” Pope Francis told a
group of tourists on St. Peter’s Square, because it “has let its head be
filled with what politicians say, judging a bishop without any proof.”