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Calling Protesters in Chile Dumb, Pope Francis Sets Off Uproar
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of New York Times


New York Times, October 7, 2015
Posted: October 18th, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/world/americas/calling-pro...

Many watched in disbelief: There he was, Pope Francis, calling people in Osorno, a city in southern Chile, dumb for protesting against a bishop accused of being complicit in clerical sexual abuse. The Osorno community is suffering because its dumb, Pope Francis told a group of tourists on St. Peters Square in Vatican City. Dont be led by the nose by the leftists who orchestrated all of this, the pope said. The video, filmed by an Argentine tourist in May, was obtained by a Chilean television station and broadcast Friday, quickly instilling doubts here about the popes commitment to protecting victims of sexual abuse. Bishop Barros was appointed by the pope to head the Diocese of Osorno this year, despite reports that he had covered up sexual abuses committed by the Rev. Fernando Karadima, a prominent priest in Santiago, the capital. Bishop Barros spent over 30 years alongside Father Karadima, who was found guilty of sexual abuses by the Vatican in 2011 and ordered to a life of seclusion, prayer and penitence. According to some of Father Karadimas victims, Bishop Barros was witness to and complicit in the abuses.

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