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Vatican congregation member allowed priest accused of child abuse to live near Catholic school

News: Vos Estis Lux Mundi

The Pillar
Mar 16, 2021
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A bishop appointed last year to the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops allowed in 2000 a priest who sexually abused minors to live in a Chicago rectory around the corner from a Catholic school — in a residence Cardinal Blase Cupich later said was not appropriate for priests accused of abuse. 

St. John Stone Augustinian Friary, Chicago.

The Vatican’s Congr…

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