PHILIPPINES
Inquirer
By Philip C. Tubeza
Philippine Daily Inquirer
8:49 pm | Friday, March 8th, 2013
MANILA, Philippines—Out of the 115-member conclave that will elect the next Pope, Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle is one of only two cardinals who show “promising” signs of dealing adequately with the sex abuse scandal rocking the Roman Catholic Church, according to a US-based group of clergy sex abuse victims.
In a statement posted on its website, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) said Tagle and Vienna Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schonborn were the “most promising candidates” for the papal throne for sex abuse victims.
The group also identified Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin but he is not a member of the College of Cardinals.
The statement, titled “SNAP’s list of ‘least worst’ papal candidates,” said the three candidates “were chosen based on their words and actions with regard to the clergy sex abuse crisis.”
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