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FILE - In this May 2, 2018 file photo, Juan Carlos Cruz, from left, James Hamilton and Jose Andres Murillo, attend a press conference at the Foreign Press Association in Rome, after spending five days with Pope Francis at his Vatican hotel. A court in Chile ruled Wednesday, March 29, 2019, that the Roman Catholic Church must pay compensation to the three, victims of the Rev. Fernando Karadima, the country’s most notorious pedophile priest. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)

Chile court orders Catholic Church to compensate victims

By PATRICIA LUNA - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 13, 2013 file photo, Chile's Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa attends Mass for the election of a new pope inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican. Victims of sexual abuse by Chile’s most infamous pedophile priest are filing a criminal complaint against Errazuriz who is an adviser to Pope Francis. Victims of the Rev. Fernando Karadima accuse Errazuriz of perjury. They also say he’s part of Chile's wretched record on clerical abuse and cover-up. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Chile: abuse victims file complaint against ex-archbishop

By EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2015 file photo, Fernando Karadima is escorted from a court, after testifying in a case that three of his victims brought against the country's Catholic Church in Santiago, Chile. Pope Francis has on Friday, Sept. 29, 2018, defrocked Karadima, a priest at the center of the global sex abuse scandal rocking his papacy, invoking his &quot;supreme&quot; authority to stiffen a sentence originally handed down by a Vatican court in 2011. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo, File)

Pope defrocks Chilean priest at center of abuse scandal

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Pope Francis meets with members of an Italian association fighting muscular dystrophy at the Vatican, Saturday, June 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis digs deeper into roots of Chile sex abuse scandal

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Juan Carlos Cruz reads from his tablet during an interview with The Associated Press in Philadelphia, Sunday Feb. 4, 2017. Cruz says Pope Francis received a letter he wrote in 2015 detailing the sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of a priest and efforts by the Chilean church to cover it up, contradicting the pope’s recent insistence that no victims had come forward. (AP Photo/Yvonne Lee)

AP Exclusive: Vatican to interview Chile victim in person

By NICOLE WINFIELD and EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

Pope Francis leaves at the end of a mass with members of different religious orders in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis) ** FILE **

Pope Francis got abuse victim’s letter about Chilean clergy, despite earlier denial

By Nicole Winfield and Eva Vergara - Associated Press

Pope Francis celebrates a seaside Mass on Huanchaco Beach, near the city of Trujillo, Peru, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018. Francis travelled Saturday to northern Peru, a region still reeling from devastating floods nearly a year ago. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Cardinal rebukes pope over Chile ‘slander’ comments on abuse

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press