Also known as Catholic sex abuse cases
sexual abuse cases by Catholic clergy
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Theodore McCarrick (1930–2025), ordered in 2018 by Pope Francis to a life of prayer and penance. Found guilty of sexual crimes against adults and minors and abuse of power, he was dismissed from the clergy in February 2019. He was the most senior church official in modern times to be laicized and was the first cardinal laicized for sexual misconduct. Pope Francis making a speech in the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2018). The Catholic Church in Chile in 2018 suffered one of the worst of the worldwide Catholic sexual abuse cases, including the Fernando Karadima case, resulting in several convictions and resignations.
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