Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz answers a question during a news conference after the weekly cabinet meeting at Moncloa Palace in Madrid February 21, 2014. REUTERS/Andrea Comas
MADRID (Reuters) - Three Spanish Catholic priests and a lay person were arrested on Monday, a police source said, in a child sexual abuse case whose victim Pope Francis has reportedly telephoned to offer the Church's apology.
Investigations into the case in the southern province of Granada started "some time ago," Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz told reporters, confirming four arrests, but he could not give further details because the issue is sub judice.
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