In a letter to Bolivian President Luis Acre, Pope Francis said he shared the president’s “concern, outrage and condemnation” with regard to the sexual abuse of minors, and pledged “the full cooperation of the Church to work alongside the government.
Jesuits accused of abuse in Bolivia in May 2023. / Credit: EWTN News
ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 7, 2023 / 15:00 pm (CNA).
In addition to allegations of the sexual abuse of minors by a number of deceased Jesuits in Bolivia, six others, including the .
However, it hasn’t been determined whether these religious are part of the group of eight former provincial superiors who were suspended by the order at the b.
Father Bernardo Mercado, SJ, the Bolivian Jesuit provincial, suspended several of his predecessors amid revelations of a cover-up of the sexual abuse of an estimated 85 minors by Father Alfonso Pedrajas, SJ (1943-2009), an openly gay Jesuit priest.
The Society of Jesus in Bolivia has announced that a Jesuit prelate, Archbishop Alejandro Mestre Descals, SJ (1912-1988), was accused in 2021 of raping a young adolescent boy.