Chile abuse priest Fernando Karadima removed by Vatican

Pope Francis has removed the priest at the centre of Chile's clerical sex abuse scandal. In a statement, the Vatican said the pontiff had defrocked Fernando Karadima for "the good of the Church". The 88-year-old former priest had previously been sanctioned to a lifetime of "penance and prayer" for having sexually abused minors. In June, the Pope accepted the resignations of three Chilean bishops in the wake of the scandal.

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