A Crux report revisiting the Vatican's 2018 Scicluna-Bertomeu investigation into the Chilean Catholic Church two years on, confirming the 2,300 page report's findings on institutional cover-up and the resignations that followed, and recording survivors' complaints that many who testified to the investigators in 2018 had not been contacted again about their own cases.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Reliability tier 2: a dedicated Catholic news outlet with an editorial record of covering the church critically on abuse, corroborated by PBS NewsHour's independent reporting on the same investigation and report. NotesTier 2: used here for the two year followup on survivors' experience of the investigation's aftermath, cross checked against PBS NewsHour's contemporaneous account of the report and resignations themselves.
Citation
PublisherCrux (Catholic News, Inc.)
Publication Year2020
URLhttps://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-americas/2020/07/survivors-group-in-chile-condemns-abuse-secretism-of-catholic-church
Source Typenews
Claims Backed By This Source (9 claims)
This source backs 9 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
Well-attested
8Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
General References
1Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
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