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The spokesman for the Vatican and his deputy resigned suddenly on Monday, an official statement said.
The two are Cardinal George Pell of Australia and Francisco Javier Errázuriz of Chile.
Both have been the subject of allegations related to sexual abuse — accusations they have denied.
First investigative results showed that the bones came from the 1964 or earlier, the ANSA news agency reported on Friday.
“We can initiate an unprecedented process that we hope will help to heal the wounds of the past.
Pope Francis and sexual abuse scandal in the church.
In a letter posted on the website of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, its president Cardinal Oswald Gracias said Pope Francis had received the bishop’s request to be temporarily relieved of his pastoral responsibilities.
“You cannot believe in God and belong to the Mafia,” Pope Francis said during a visit to the Italian Mediterranean island to which the Cosa Nostra organised crime network is native.
In a statement, the Vatican said Pope Francis had authorised “an investigation on the economic-administrative aspects” of the institution, “which is still ongoing”.
Pope Francis has summoned the heads of national Catholic bishops conferences from around the world to the Vatican in February for a meeting to discuss the protection of minors from sexual abuse, the Vatican said on Wednesday.
The comments were made by German Archbishop, Georg Gaenswein, the secretary of retired pope Benedict XVI and prefect of the papal household under Pope Francis, in a speech to Italian parliament.
Pope Francis said this at the Marian Shrine of Knock on Sunday, his second day in Ireland.
“Pope Francis must further elaborate on how the Vatican could move beyond “palliatives’’ and resolve ongoing abuse scandals currently rocking the Church’’.
Francis led a service in St Peter’s Basilica attended by over 200 people, including people rescued at sea and representatives of migrant charities.
According to a statement, bishops Alejandro Goic of the city of Rancagua and Horacio Valenzuela of the city of Talca would be replaced by commissioners, known as apostolic administrators.
The US ambassador to the Vatican, Callista Gingrich, handed over the manuscript to Vatican Library officials, a Vatican spokesman confirmed to dpa.
Francis made his comments in a message to participants at a conference on international migration being held in the Vatican.
In an unprecedented move, all Chile’s 34 bishops offered to resign en masse in May after attending a crisis meeting with the pope over allegations of a cover-up of sexual abuse in the South American nation.
Pope Francis, who wrote a document on protecting the environment from global warming in 2015, will address 40 participants – including leading oil and gas executives and major industry investors – on Saturday.
Pope Francis, a native of Argentina, said last month that he would receive Jorge Sampaoli’s squad at the Vatican prior to the World Cup.