PHILADELPHIA (PA)
NBC 10
By Vince Lattanzio
How do you put an international spotlight on an issue like child sexual abuse which people often don’t like to hear about?
Have the leader of one the largest organized religions in the world stop by for a visit.
That’s what staff of the Philadelphia Children’s Alliance (PCA) are hoping will happen come September.
The nonprofit, which offers care to sexually abused children and works with police to bring their abusers to justice, penned a letter to Pope Francis asking him to visit their facility when he travels to Philadelphia for the upcoming World Meeting of Families conference.
“We really thought that knowing what we know about him, knowing about his interesting commitment to the welfare of children that it would be great to showcase our work to Pope Francis,” Chris Kirchner, PCA’s executive director, tells NBC10.
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