Abuse survivor Juan Carlos Cruz recalls a "crazy year" — traveling with other survivors to the Vatican, receiving Francis' apology face-to-face, and more — at SNAP's annual conference in Chicago.
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of two more Chilean Catholic bishops, bringing to five the number of prelates he has replaced so far as part of the continuing fallout of the country's clergy sexual abuse crisis.
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of the Catholic bishop at the center of Chile's clergy sexual abuse crisis, in the first of what is expected to be a wave of firings to root out what the pontiff has termed a "culture of abuse and cover-up" in the church.
The Vatican announced Pope Francis will soon be sending a letter to "all the People of God" of Chile, in what appears to be a sign that the pope has made a decision about whether to accept the resignations of the country's bishops over their mishandling of clergy sexual abuse.
