Pope role in study of Argentine sex abuse case in spotlight
(WorldNews Argentina)

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Pope Francis’ role in Argentina’s most famous case of priestly sex abuse is coming under renewed scrutiny as he faces the greatest crisis of his papacy over the Catholic Church’s troubled legacy of cover-up and allegations he himself sided with the accused. Francis, who at the time was still Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, in 2010 commissioned a four-volume, 2,000-plus page forensic study of the legal case against a convicted priest that concluded he was innocent, that his victims were lying and that the case never should have gone to trial. The Argentine church says that the study obtained by The Associated Press - bound volumes complete with...