Pope Francis needs to do more to stop priest sex abuse, advocates say

This is part 4 in a special series – Fugitive Fathers:
How the Vatican’s alleged sex abusers hide and preach in Latin America. Click here for more.
September 25th, 2015 -

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Last week, a GlobalPost investigation detailed a disturbing new chapter in the Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandal: Priests accused of molesting children have been able to escape scrutiny by relocating to poor, remote parishes in South America. Two-and-half years into Pope Francis’s papacy, these revelations raise questions over whether he has…