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Church in Peru

Accused priest seeks laicization, as Lima cardinal pushes back on critics

Edgar Beltrán
Jul 12, 2025
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A Lima priest accused of sexual misconduct requested laicization last week, after The Pillar reported charges that the Lima archdiocese mishandled the allegations against him, in a process that some alleged amounted to a cover-up for a priest close to Lima’s Cardinal Carlos Castillo.

Cardinal Carlos Castillo. Credit: Romanuspontifex/wikimedia. CC BY SA 3…

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