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Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta participates in a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this June 29, 2015, file photo. Archbishop Scicluna was sent by Pope Francis to investigate clerical sexual abuse in Chile. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) 
FaithVatican Dispatch
Pope Francis sending representatives to Chile on mission of ‘healing’ for sex abuse victims
Gerard O’Connell
In another surprise decision, Pope Francis has decided to send Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta and Msgr. Jordi Bertomeu to Chile.
Chilean clerical sex abuse survivors Juan Carlos Cruz, James Hamilton and Jose Andres Murillo in Rome, May 2. The three met Pope Francis individually at the Vatican April 27-29. The Vatican announced on May 22 that a second group of abuse victims will visit the pope in June (CNS photo/Paul Haring).
FaithVatican Dispatch
Pope Francis to host meeting with Chilean priests abused by Father Karadima
Gerard O’Connell
The encounters will take place from June 1-3 at Santa Marta, the Vatican guesthouse where Francis lives.
Pope Francis talks with Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, as they arrive for a meeting in the synod hall at the Vatican in this Feb. 13, 2015, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) 
Politics & SocietyLast Take
The pope and a cardinal show Catholics the right way to call someone out
Simcha Fisher
Righteous call-outs should be patterned after Cardinal O’Malley’s rebuke of Pope Francis on sex abuse.
Chilean clerical sex abuse survivors Juan Carlos Cruz and James Hamilton attend a news conference at the Foreign Press Association building in Rome May 2. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithNews
Juan Carlos Cruz: Pope Francis’ words about gay Catholics are a model of welcome
Michael J. O’Loughlin
“I saw someone who was caring for someone, not worrying about if we are gay, straight, brown, white.”
In this image made from video, Archbishop Philip Wilson, center, heads to Newcastle Local Court, north of Sydney, Australia Tuesday, May 22, 2018. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation via AP)
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Australian archbishop faces prison time for failure to report child sex abuse
Gerard O’Connell
Philip Wilson was found guilty of failing to inform police about allegations of the sexual abuse of minors by a priest in the 1970s.
Pope Francis arrives in procession with other bishops during Mass at the Maquehue Airport near Temuco, Chile, Jan. 17. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithVatican Dispatch
In private letter, Pope Francis told Chilean bishops their church’s “sin became the center of attention”
Gerard O’Connell
In the 10-page text, Francis presented a searing diagnosis of what had transformed this once prophetic and esteemed church in Latin America to one of the least respected.
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