Until now Pope Francis has stood firmly by Bishop Barros.
Gerard O’Connell
Gerard O’Connell is America’s senior Vatican correspondent and author of The Election of Pope Francis: An Inside Story of the Conclave That Changed History. He has been covering the Vatican since 1985.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
‘Amoris Laetitia,’ migrants and sex abuse on the agenda for World Meeting of Families in Dublin
Cardinal Kevin Farrell announced today that Pope Francis plans to attend the ninth World Meeting of Families, from Aug. 21 to 26,
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Pope Francis asks forgiveness from sexual abuse victims but reaffirms support for Bishop Barros
“I ask forgiveness,” the pope said on his flight from Lima to Rome. “It’s a hurt [caused] without wishing it.”
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At Mass for 1.3 million, Pope Francis says Jesus “continues to walk on our streets”
Jesus “is here in Lima, or wherever you are living, in the routine of your daily life and work.”
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In Lima, Pope Francis calls for a united, missionary and prophetic church
People and cheered Pope Francis everywhere he went on this last day of his visit.
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At a beach Mass for 200,000 Peruvians, Pope Francis brings hope to storm-hit Trujillo
“Just as the apostles faced the storm on the sea, you had to face the brunt of ‘El Niño costero.’”
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In Peru, Pope Francis deplores degradation of the environment and the toxic effects of corruption
“The degradation of the environment…cannot be separated from the moral degradation of our communities.”
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In Peru, Pope Francis says the church stands with the peoples of the Amazon and the earth
Francis is the first pope to come to the Amazon region, and he insisted that his first event and major speech of his visit to Peru should be to this place.
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Jesuit university president hopes Pope Francis can help church in Peru “regain its prophetic voice”
Father Ernesto Cavassa was provincial of the Jesuits in Peru from 1998 to 2004, and president of the Conference of Latin American Jesuit Provincials from 2005 to 2012.
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In Iquique, Pope Francis calls on Chileans to show hospitality to immigrants
“There is no Christian joy when doors are closed; there is no Christian joy when others are made to feel unwanted,” the pope said.