The Vatican's top abuse investigator arrived in Chile today, a day after Pope Francis accepted the resignation of three bishops from the scandal-wracked Chilean Church.
Maltese archbishop Charles Slicluna was accompanied by another papal envoy Jordi Bertomeu.
"We have come to ask forgiveness" from the victims on behalf of Pope Francis, said Bertomeu as they arrived in Santiago.
The two officials are to travel to Osorno, the Catholic diocese that was led by controversial bishop Juan Barros, one of three bishops whose resignation Francis accepted yesterday, following a child sex abuse scandal which has come to haunt his papacy.
The entire Chilean delegation of bishops that was called to a meeting with the pope in the Vatican last month resigned. But so far, the pope has accepted only three resignations.
When asked if others were to follow, Bertomeu said: "That we have to leave in their hands, but we have to be very expectant that things will go very well."
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