UNITED STATES
The New York Times
INTRODUCTION
Pope Francis had to backtrack after he outraged the victims of pedophile clerics by speaking sympathetically, during his trip to the United States, about how the scandal had affected bishops and priests. Then, last week, a video was broadcast showing him calling the residents of a Chilean town “dumb” for protesting a bishop who has been accused of being complicit in the crimes one abusive priest.
Is Pope Francis taking the scandal seriously enough? Has he properly addressed problems of thousands of victims of priestly abuse and the concerted efforts of church officials to cover up?
DEBATERS
WILLIAM DAILEY
The Rev. William Dailey, C.S.C., is the Thomas More fellow of the Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame, and a lecturer at Notre Dame Law School.
KATHERINE GALLAGHER
Katherine Gallagher is a senior attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she has represented the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. She is on Twitter.
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