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All Chile’s Catholic Bishops Offer To Resign
The bishops have been accused of negligence in child sex abuse cases.
Chile’s Catholic bishops have been accused in a Vatican report of negligence in child sex abuse cases. Pope Francis initially dismissed the allegations, but later admitted to “grave errors in judgement”.
Also in the programme: why is the US government so worried about Europe’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline? And we hear from Newshour’s James Menendez about the almost-total collapse of Venezuela’s economy.
Picture: the Pope meets with bishops during a visit to Chile in January 2018. Credit: Getty Images.
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