UNITED STATES
Survivors Voice
This week, as the conclave to elect the next Pope of the Roman Catholic Church begins, people from around the globe continue to wonder and ask “Who will be elected as the next Pope”?
As this question has been asked over and over again for the past several weeks, Survivors of clergy abuse from around the world continue to wait, as well.
We are not waiting to find out who will be elected as the next Pope. We are waiting for the world to join us and finally start asking the right questions.
The question of who the next pope will be pales in comparison to the question of what the next pope will do. While former Pope Benedict officially called the sexual abuse by clergy of children a “crime”, he failed to remove those who committed those crimes, and those who harbored those criminals.
In order protect future generations of children from abuse, and in order to repair the damage done to yesterday and today’s generation of clergy abuse survivors from around the world, we need to stop asking “Who will the next Pope?” … we need to begin asking “What will the next Pope do”.?
Will the next Pope, remove from ministry the priests who abused children?
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