The Catholic
Church has yet to help authorities in Peru who are investigating whether
a defrocked bishop sexually abused children before Pope Francis forced
him from his post in a poor Andean region, a prosecutor said on
Thursday.
On September 20, the attorney
general's office opened an investigation into Gabino Miranda, until
recently the auxiliary bishop of Ayacucho in southern Peru, after a
prominent bishop said the Church had kicked Miranda out of the clergy
because of suspected paedophilia.