In 2018, Pennsylvania became the epicenter of the Catholic clergy sex abuse crisis with the release of a statewide grand jury report detailing decades-old concealment of the systemic abuse of hundreds of minors at the hands of more than 300 priests.
Scores of survivors of abuse across Pennsylvania looked to Pope Francis, widely considered a church reformist, to bring about transformative and substantive change in the church that could lead to healing and closure for the many broken adults who had suffered at the hands of priests.
For many survivors of clergy sex abuse that day never came.
Pope Francis, 88, died Monday morning, the Vatican announced, after battling multiple health issues that led to his hospitalization for five weeks earlier this year.
On Sunday, the pontiff, despite doctors’ orders, made an Easter Sunday appearance on St. Peter’s…
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