Vatican City: Key cardinal rebukes pope over abuse comment in rare move

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"The day they bring me proof against Bishop Barros, I'll speak,. There is not one shred of proof against him. It's all calumny. Is that clear?"

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By Web Desk | January 20, 2018

A key U.S. cardinal distanced himself on Saturday from comments by Pope Francis on sexual abuse, saying they had caused “great pain,” a remarkable move pointing to divisions in the Roman Catholic Church over how to treat accusers.

Cardinal Sean O'Malley, the archbishop of Boston, said he couldn't explain why Francis "chose the particular words he used." He said such expressions had the effect of abandoning victims and relegating them to "discredited exile."

The implicit public rebuke of the pope by one of his top advisers came after two days of pointed attacks from victims and their advocates, and was another setback for Francis’ attempts to come to grips with sexual abuse in the Church.

"The day they bring me proof against Bishop Barros, I'll speak," Francis had told a Chilean journalists in the northern city of Iquique. "There is not one shred of proof against him. It's all calumny. Is that clear?"


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