Pope's sex abuse advisors meet in Rome over Chile bishop

Source: Yahoo! News / AP

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Four members of Pope Francis' sex abuse advisory commission traveled to Rome on Sunday to voice their concerns in person about Francis' appointment of a Chilean bishop accused of covering up for the country's most notorious molester.

The four met with Francis' point-man on abuse, Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston, who agreed to relay their concerns to the pope about the appointment of Juan Barros as bishop of Osorno in southern Chile, the commission members said in a statement.

Victims of Chile's most notorious abuser, the Rev. Fernando Karadima, say Barros knew of and even witnessed Karadima's abuse decades ago. Barros was a protege of the charismatic Karadima, who was sanctioned by the Vatican in 2011 for sexually abusing minors.

Commission member Marie Collins said that if Barros doesn't appreciate that Karadima's behavior then was inappropriate, "then he doesn't understand child abuse."


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