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A number of Milwaukeeans are heading to the cities where Pope Francis will spend the next week: Washington, DC; New York and Philadelphia. They have different reasons for making the trip. …
Peter Isely admits many people find Pope Francis to be engaging, but Isely says, “what’s important is changing the system,” so the church does more to protect children from sexually-abusive clergy. Isely is with the group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, and he has already traveled out east. He says the group will hold events throughout the pope’s high-profile visit.
“We have groups, of course, in all of those cities he’s going to be at, so we’ll be trying to get our message out in all those cities,” Isely says.
One of the pope’s stops will be at the United Nations. Isely’s group held a news conference there Monday. The group announced demands, including global zero tolerance for sexual abuse in the priesthood, and the creation of a global registry of sex offenders.
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