Chile: Fernando Karadima, priest defrocked for sexual abuses, dies
28 July 2021 |
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Fernando Karadima was a key figure in a sexual abuse case that sent shockwaves through the Catholic Church. Aged 90, he died of bronchopneumonia and kidney failure in a nursing home.
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