"We have failed in our role as pastors, for not having listened, believed, attended or accompanied the victims of grave sins and injustices committed by priests and religious."
This statement by the Chilean Bishops’ Conference of the Catholic Church on August 3 follows years of silence and inaction over the widespread sexual abuse of children by members of the Chilean clergy and lay community members. The allegations are now under the lens of prosecutors.
The burgeoning crisis comes amid a dramatic decline in Catholicism across Latin America and beyond. A sexual abuse scandal in 2010 involving Father Fernando Karadima accelerated the evaporation of active support for Catholicism in Chile.
The Stream will look at the details of the abuse scandal, how the Catholic Church can address the rights of survivors, and its future in Chile and the wider region.
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