The victims gave their testimony to another official after the original Vatican envoy had emergency surgery.

Father Moreno described the Hernández government as an authoritarian regime tilting toward a dictatorship. “It is a government that represents a threat to freedom of expression. It is a threat to defenders of human rights, and it is a government that threatens the fundamental rights of Honduran citizens.”

The priests were traveling with four other passengers, all of whom were injured.

Brochero set out to be a pastor, and in the process became the public servant par excellence.

After 52 years of armed conflict in Colombia, government and rebel leaders reached a peace accord in late 2016. Now, the country is rebuilding.

The fact that Francis received the eight-page letter challenges his insistence that he has “zero tolerance” for sex abuse and cover-ups.