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On 27 February 2018, the dubious web site YourNewsWire.com reported that Pope Francis had granted forgiveness and covered up the acts of 4,444 Australian priests accused of pedophilia: The item quoted an early 2017 article in the German newspaper Deutsche Welle as its source, which in no way substantiated the claim Pope Francis had forgiven or covered up the acts of 4,444 priests in Australia: Notably, the Deutsche Welle article never mentioned Pope Francis, only Vatican finance chief George Pell, who the paper reported was implicated in the inquiry. The piece went on to say that the inquiry had found over 1,880 perpetrators, 90 percent of whom were men (about 1,700). The commission was set up to look into incidents between 1950 and 2010, three years before Pope Francis's March 2013 election. Predictably, no other outlet (credible or otherwise) made any claims Pope Francis forgave or concealed the actions of 4,444 Australian child predators. The Pope has come under fire recently for appointing Juan Barros bishop of Osorno, Chile, after victims accused Barros of covering up sexual abuse by a priest in Santiago.
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