Pope meets with Chilean bishop and victims' advocate over Church sex abuse

Pope Francis leads the general audience at the Paul VI Hall in Vatican. [Reuters]

Pope Francis met in Rome on Friday with a Chilean bishop and a victims’ advocate to discuss the Church sex abuse scandal in Chile and measures being taken to prevent it in the future.

Bishop Juan Ignacio Gonzalez of San Bernardo and Ana Maria Celis Brunet, president of the Chilean National Council for the Prevention of Abuse and Accompaniment of Victims, met with the pope at the Vatican, it said in a statement.