Chile
In South America’s ‘Lithium Triangle,’ Indigenous people defend sacred sites
By Eduardo Campos Lima — January 18, 2024
(RNS) — The Indigenous population sees lithium extraction as a disruption of their ancient relationship with the mountains that surround their homes, which they hold as sacred.
The Catholic Church defended human rights during Chile’s dictatorship. An archive tells the story
By MarÍa Teresa HernÁndez — September 7, 2023
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The protection that Chilean Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez provided for Augusto Pinochet's victims had no precedent in Latin America.
As their World Cup team advances, Argentines call on folk saints for help
By Eduardo Campos Lima — December 9, 2022
SÃO PAULO, Brazil (RNS) — One expert said that while official Catholic saints tend to be invoked in church, ‘folk saints tend to be more visible in public spaces, including soccer fields.’
Chile hospital integrates Native medicine, birth to death
By Giovanna Dell'orto — August 29, 2022
OSORNO, Chile (AP) — The largest public hospital in the southern Chilean city of Osorno is finding new ways to incorporate Indigenous health practices, a move they say is restoring a crucial spiritual component to health care.
Rev. Al Sharpton calls for justice in police killing of Valentina Orellana Peralta
By Alejandra Molina — January 10, 2022
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Sharpton eulogized 14-year-old Valentina Orellana Peralta at her open-casket funeral.
Karadima, priest defrocked for sexual abuses, dies in Chile
By Associated Press — July 27, 2021
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Fernando Karadima, a Chilean priest who was at the center of a sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church in Chile, has died at 90.
Why reparations are always about more than money
By Kerry Whigham — July 6, 2021
(The Conversation) — From Germany to Georgetown, the Global North has a lot to learn about reckoning successfully with past human rights wrongs.
Pope defrocks 2 more Chilean priests accused of sex abuse
By The Associated Press — October 13, 2018
(AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday defrocked two more Chilean prelates accused of sexually abusing minors, and to show greater transparency about how he’s responding to the church’s global sex abuse crisis, the pontiff publicly explained why they were removed.
US not alone in grappling with Catholic sex abuse, cover-up
By Nicole Winfield — August 22, 2018
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cases of Catholic priests raping and molesting children, and of bishops covering up for them, have erupted on nearly every continent in recent years.
Pope praises Chile bishops for reflecting on their failures
By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 7, 2018
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The pontiff said in a letter to the Chilean church's Episcopal Conference that he is 'impressed by the reflection, discernment and decisions' taken by bishops when they met last week.
At last, bad news is good news in the Catholic sex abuse scandal
By Thomas Reese — June 28, 2018
(RNS) — The truly bad news of the scandal, of course, has been the horrible abuse of children and the negative effects of the abuse will be with them for the rest of their lives. The good news is that perpetrators have been caught and exposed. Accusations are being investigated and the guilty are being punished.
Chilean police raid Catholic Church offices amid abuse probe
By Patricia Luna — June 13, 2018
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Police and prosecutors raided Roman Catholic Church offices in two Chilean cities Wednesday, looking for files, investigative reports and documents related to a clergy sex abuse scandal.
Pope begins purge in Chilean church over sex abuse scandal
By Nicole Winfield — June 11, 2018
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis accepted the resignation Monday of the bishop at the center of Chile's clerical sex abuse scandal and two others.
Chile’s bishops resign en masse over sex abuse cover-up
By Nicole Winfield — May 18, 2018
(AP) — Every Chilean bishop offered to resign Friday over a sex abuse and cover-up scandal, in the biggest shakeup ever in the Catholic Church’s long-running abuse saga.
Pope to give Chilean bishops a dressing-down on abuse errors
By Nicole Winfield — May 12, 2018
VATICAN CITY (AP) — In a harsh statement that set the tone for next week's meetings, the Vatican said Francis wanted to discern responsibilities for the crisis and map changes in the Chilean church to prevent these "devastating wounds" from recurring.
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