Author: Stephen Johnson / Source: Big Think
- The cardinals have been removed from the pope’s C-9 cabinet, an informal group designed to help restructure the bureaucracy of the Vatican.
- The cardinals have not been removed from the church.
- In February, the Vatican will host a conference to inform church leaders about the impacts of sexual abuse.
Pope Francis has removed two cardinals from his informal cabinet after they were implicated in high-profile sexual abuse scandals, the Vatican said on Wednesday.
In letters written in October, Francis thanked Chilean Cardinal Javier Errazuriz and Australian Cardinal George Pell for their five years of service on the so-called Group of Nine, or C-9, which Francis founded in 2013 to help restructure the bureaucracy of the Vatican.
Errazuriz, 85, retired as Santiago archbishop in 2010 and is currently being sued in Chilean civil court by victims of sexual abuse for his alleged role in helping cover up assaults committed by recently defrocked priest Fernando Karadima. The cardinal voluntarily removed himself from the C-9 group in November.
Pell faces criminal charges in Australia for sexual abuse that allegedly occurred…
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