People walks past the 'El Bosque' church, former parish of Vatican-convicted child abuser Fernando Karadima, while the Vatican special envoy, Archbishop Charles Scicluna, meets with victims of sexual abuse, allegedly committed by members of the church in Santiago, Chile February 21, 2018. REUTERS/Claudio Santana
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - To understand why Chile, one of Latin America's most socially conservative nations, is losing faith in the Roman Catholic Church, visit Providencia, a middle-class area of Santiago coming to terms with a decades-old clergy sex abuse scandal.
Providencia is home to El Bosque, the former parish of priest Fernando Karadima, who was found guilty in a Vatican investigation in 2011 of abusing teenage boys over many years, spurring a chain of events leading to this week's visit by a Vatican investigator.
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