Follow-up: Scandal continues to rock Church in Mexico

A Mexican judge ordered a Roman Catholic priest to stand trial in the rape of a 9-year-old boy in 1999. The setback to Rafael Perez Sanchez has come on the heels of allegations that the Mexican Catholic Church knowingly covered up the actions of a priest accused of child abuse in Mexico and the U.S.

In a related note, Church officials in Colombia have been accused of their own cover-up after a priest confessed in a radio interview to abusing children in Colombia and the U.S. in the 1960s.

Links- NDTV (India), Mercury News (U.S.), The Latin Americanist (blog), Catholic Online

Image- bluffton.edu (Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral)

Tags- Catholic Church, Mexico, Colombia