Pope asks all of Chile's bishops to resign

[TomSea]

Pope asks all of Chile's bishops to resign
Nicole Winfield

VATICAN CITY -- Four months ago, Pope Francis dug himself into the biggest hole of his papacy by strongly defending a Chilean bishop accused by sex abuse victims of witnessing and ignoring their abuse.

On Friday, he emerged from that debacle after strong-arming the entire Chilean bishops conference to resign for what he said were their "grave defects" in handling abuse cases. He accused them of destroying evidence of sex crimes, interfering with investigations and negligently placing children at risk of being raped by pedophiles.

By repenting for his original sin with what amounts to an ecclesial nuclear option, Francis has quite possibly ushered in the game-changer in the Catholic Church's long-running sex abuse crisis.

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Usually, I duck the religious issues like this one, but to ask all Bishops of a country to resign, seems too big of news. Delete if outside forum rules. I'd never heard of thing. Can the people in Chile get financial compensation as in the US? I would think they could.

[Quix]

Pretty big issue.

A little curious if Francis demands all Chili's bishops resign for winking at or ignoring or participating in child sex abuse ... when Francis ?is? or ?has? also participated in such as some insist.