Bolivian bishops express pain over serial sexual abuse by Jesuit priest

Bolivian bishops express pain over serial sexual abuse by Jesuit priest Pope Francis attends a meeting with the Bolivian bishops in this file photo. Photo: CNS/L'Osservatore Romano

An investigation by the Spanish newspaper El Pais has revealed that the Spanish Jesuit priest Alfonso Pedrajas Moreno, who died in 2009, sexually abused as many as 85 boys and adolescents in the 1970s and 1980s and recorded the incidents in a secret diary as “blunders”, and that the Jesuits covered it up. A nephew…

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