Pope sends Vatican official to Bolivia as abuse allegations escalate

Pope sends Vatican official to Bolivia as abuse allegations escalate

Thursday, May 25th, 2023

Pope Francis has sent one of his top sex crimes investigators to Bolivia at a time when the Andean nation is being shaken by an escalating paedophilia scandal involving priests.

Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu, a leading member of the church’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, arrived in Bolivia on the same day as a former Jesuit seminarian landed in the country vowing to reveal more information about alleged cases of abuse.

The Bolivian Episcopal Conference said Bertomeu’s visit is not directly related to the recent sex abuse allegations but had been planned earlier to analyse “the progress made in the field of the culture of prevention” promoted by the Vatican.

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