Chilean Bishops Offer Mass Resignation to Pope Over Abuse Scandal

In an unprecedented move, 34 Chilean bishops said on Friday they had offered to resign en masse after attending a crisis meeting this week with Pope Francis about the cover-up of sexual abuse in their country. It was not immediately clear if the pope would accept all or any of the resignations from the prelates, who hold all the top jobs in Chile's Roman Catholic Church. "We have put our positions in the hands of the Holy Father and will leave it to him to decide freely for...

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