BOSTON (MA)
WWLP
Jay Lindsay, Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) – Bernie McDaid’s prediction that Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley would be the new pope turned to be wrong.
But he says the election of a man who reached out to him and other clergy sex abuse victims to arrange a secret 2008 meeting with Pope Benedict XVI would have signaled a church ready to finally reckon with its sex abuse problem.
Instead, Argentine Jorge Bergoglio is now Pope Francis and McDaid sees a church more interested in uniting its hierarchy.
“They’re putting their problems first again, instead of the real problem that’s causing the disruption, which is the child sex abuse, which they still haven’t worked through,” McDaid said.
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