Vatican: Pope Chile letter a “spiritual state of emergency”

The Vatican said Thursday that Pope Francis’s apology to Chilean sex abuse victims and his request that the country’s bishops come to Rome to discuss reforms amounts to a “spiritual state of emergency” declaration for the Chilean Catholic Church. In an interview with The Associated Press, Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said Francis’s letter to the Chilean hierarchy was an acknowledgment that he had made mistakes about abuse victims and that “yes, we believe you, you have your place in the Church.”

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