Chile Archives - Page 6 of 49

Argentine doctor faces prison for refusing abortion; Chilean Jesuit faces abuse accusations

May 23, 2019

Inés San Martín gives a roundup of Church news from Latin America.

In Chile, God’s alive and well and arrives every day on WhatsApp

May 21, 2019

The success of a WhatsApp spiritual thread in Chile suggests that while the abuse scandals may have badly frayed confidence in the institutional church and its leadership, it has not killed off the basic human hunger for faith and community.

By Inés San Martín

Priest says ‘religious ideologies’ complicate Chile’s abuse crisis

May 20, 2019

If you don’t know the story of what’s happened in Chile, it’s hard to appreciate just how massive, and painful, this crisis has been.

By Inés San Martín

Church in Chile ‘shocked,’ ‘perplexed’ over abuse crisis, locals say

May 18, 2019

The Catholic Church’s standing in Chile right now is taking an historic beating.

By Inés San Martín

Chile bishop says pope’s criticism created ‘painful,’ ‘unfair’ image

May 14, 2019

Chilean Bishop Celestino Aos Braco says comments from Pope Francis last year about a “culture of cover-up” among the Chilean bishops led to impressions that all prelates in the country were equally guilty, an image he called “painful” and “unfair.”

By Inés San Martín

Meet the Chile prelate who may just have the Church’s toughest job

May 13, 2019

Bishop Celestino Aos Bracco may have few of the benefits of the post as leader of the Archdiocese of Santiago in Chile, but he certainly has its headaches.

By Inés San Martín

Chile prosecutor scraps controversial deal with Church on abuse cases

May 7, 2019

After less than a week, Chile’s national prosecutor has decided to cancel a cooperation agreement it had signed with the national bishops’ conference on handling clerical sexual abuse cases, following an uproar over the terms of the deal among abuse survivors.

By Inés San Martín