FILE PHOTO - Archbishop of Santiago, Ricardo Ezzati, leaves the prosecutor's building after a hearing over allegations he covered-up sexual abuse of minors, in Rancagua, Chile, October 3, 2018. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati as archbishop of Santiago, the highest-ranking member of the Catholic Church in Chile, who has been caught up in the country's sex abuse scandal.
The decision to accept Ezzati's resignation, announced in a Vatican statement on Saturday, comes at a time of sustained criticism of the Church's response to a decades-long sexual abuse crisis.
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