Pope sacks bishop
A statement from the Vatican said the Pope had removed Bishop Rogelio Ricardo Livieres Plano, a member of the conservative Opus Dei movement, from his post as head of the diocese of Paraguay's Ciudad del Este.
The Argentinian-born pontiff has vowed zero tolerance against Roman Catholic clerics who sexually abuse minors, and accountability for those who covered up abuse, after a series of scandals hit the Church in a number of countries around the world over many years.
In May he called such abuse an "ugly crime" and likened it to "a Satanic mass".
The dismissal came two days after the Pope approved the arrest in the Vatican of a former archbishop accused of paying for sex with children while he was a papal ambassador to the Dominican Republic.
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