217 Bishops And Pastors Under Probe.

The Vatican’s representative in Mexico Nuncio Franco Coppola has said that 217 priests are being investigated for various se*ual abuse. He stated this at a conference to announce that the Vatican would send its top sex abuse investigators to Mexico later in March. He acknowledged that the magnitude of the problem “eludes” them because while the Mexican Episcopal Conference says 217 priests are being investigated, there are cases in which the religious order sent the complaint directly to Rome, meaning the number could be higher.

Nuncio Franco Coppola, the Vatican’s representative in Mexico did not provide details on the bishops’ possible roles, but noted that in January and December an email address opened to receive abuse allegations took in dozens of allegations, mostly accounts of cover ups.

Victims of clerical sex abuse have expressed skepticism over the Vatican investigative commission that will collect statements and information about abuse in Mexico, though most said they would meet with Pope Francis’ investigators.

The Vatican announced Tuesday that two investigators — Charles Scicluna, archbishop of Malta and deputy secretary for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and Jordi Bertomeu — will be in Mexico City March 20-27. They will meet with bishops, leaders of religious orders and victims who want to speak with them. They promise confidentiality.

Mexico, which has the second highest number of Catholics in the world, has been accumulating cases of abuse and cover-ups for years.

Meanwhile,The Mexican Episcopal Conference has submitted that some church officials went to Chile in 2018 to investigate one case of se*ual abuse and returned with 2,600 pages of statements from more than 60 victims.

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