Sexual Assault Survivor on Pope Benedict's Resignation...

Current - the Young Turks
February 12, 2013

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Cenk Uygur talks to Peter Isely, a founding member of SNAP, the Survivor’s Network of those Abused by Priests, about the surprising resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and his legacy. “The point about Benedict resigning is that he’s resigning without having done what he needs to have done as pope,” Isely says, referring to the continuing child abuse scandals and cover-ups within the Catholic Church. Isely lays out a blueprint he says the papal successor needs to follow: “The first day he comes into office, [he needs to] sign a decree … that any priest that has sexually assaulted or harmed a child is going to be immediately removed from the priesthood.”