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A U.S.-based organization representing victims of child abuse named two cardinals and an archbishop, who they say are the best candidates to become the new Pope.
At a news conference in Rome, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) said that Cardinals Christoph Schonborn and Luis Antonio Tagle and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin were the “least worst” papal candidates on the basis of their words and actions in regards to the clergy sex abuse crisis.
The Roman Catholic Church has been rocked in recent decades by repeated sex scandals, primarily in wealthy Western nations such as the United States, Ireland and Germany. Many of the cases dated back decades and became known only later.
SNAP member Barbara Doris explained why the organization favors Schonborn, Tagle and Martin before SNAP Director David Clohessy held up a card listing their names.
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