Cardinal O’Malley corrects the Pope on his comments in Chile

For those, Catholics and non-Catholics alike, who have been concerned that Pope Francis has not dealt adequately with the scourge of clergy sex abuse, his trip to Chile last week seemed like the perfect opportunity to do the right thing. Unfortunately, he did the opposite. Next door to the pope’s native Argentina, Chile has been roiled for years by a series of abuse cases, most notoriously that of Rev. Fernando Karadima, a charismatic priest whom the Vatican defrocked in 2011 for abusing teenagers during the 1980s and 1990s. The ongoing issue, as in so many of these cases, has been the Vatican’s failure to discipline those who covered up the abuse.

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