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	Victims Demand Files Be Opened By Philip Pullella The Daily Observer March 26, 2010 http://www.thedailyobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2509126 Victims of sexual abuse by priests demonstrated at the Vatican on Thursday, demanding that Pope Benedict open up files on pedophile Catholic clerics worldwide and immediately defrock all "predator priests". The demonstration came as a leading cardinal denounced what he called a "conspiracy" to discredit the Catholic Church and said he could understand why some bishops hushed up cases of pedophilia so as not to harm the Church's good name. Four leaders of the U.S.-based Survivor Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), all of whom were sexually abused by priests, including being raped, held up photos of themselves as children and signs reading "Stop the Secrecy Now". "I would ask the Pope if he would please open up the files from the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith and turn over all the information to the police," said Barbara Blaine, the president of SNAP. She was referring to the department once headed by the Pope when he was a cardinal, which judges cases of sexual abuse. "I would also ask him to make a public order to all bishops across the globe that all predator
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