LOS ANGELES (CA)
KABC
[with video]
Jovana Lara
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Will the newly elected Pope Francis push for reform and try and resolve the church sex abuse scandal?
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, a group that represents many sex abuse victims, hopes so and its leaders and some victims are speaking out.
“I had no expectations whatsoever. In fact, I was almost rooting for (Cardinal) Roger Mahony so that I could turn my back completely and totally on the church and that part of my life,” said Udo Strutynski, who says he survived three years of abuse at the hands of a priest in Los Angeles in the 1950s.
However, Strutynski said he is pleasantly surprised by the cardinals’ choice in Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who chose the name of Francis as the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
“I felt pretty good about him,” Strutynski said. “I thought this is much better than I dreamt of.”
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