UNITED STATES
Press TV (Iran)

Press TV has conducted an interview with Mark Dankof, political commentator, San Antonio, about the pope announcing he will punish priests who sexually abuse children after meeting with some of those abused.

The following is an approximate transcript of the interview.

Press TV: We know the previous Pope was under a lot more criticism, he was even accused of ignoring, himself personally, cases of child abuse, but what do you think about the way Pope Francis has dealt with the situation?

Dankof: I’m a cynic on this admittedly. I agree with Barbara Blaine the president of an organization called SNAP – Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests – who has basically said that this is a lot of PR window dressing, that it doesn’t really change anything in the way in which systems are conducted in the Roman Catholic Church.

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