India, Nov. 23 -- Pope Leo XIV accepted the resignation of an ailing Spanish bishop who is under church investigation for allegedly sexually abusing a young seminarian in the 1990s, the first known time the new pontiff removed a bishop accused of abuse. A one-line statement from the Vatican said Leo had accepted the resignation of Cadiz Bishop Rafael. It didn't say why, but Zornoza submitted his resignation to the pope last year. It hadn't been accepted, though, until the El Pais newspaper reported earlier this month that Zornoza had been recently placed under investigation by a church tribunal. Which since 2018 has exposed decades of abuse and cover-up in the Spanish Catholic Church, said Zornoza was accused of abusing a young former semin...
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