UNITED STATES
Advocate
May 20, 2018
By Daniel Reynolds
The leader of the Catholic Church gave an affirmative message to a survivor of child abuse.
A gay victim of sexual abuse said he received a moving message of support from Pope Francis.
Juan Carlos Cruz met with the leader of the Catholic Church last week, in order to discuss the abuse he suffered at the hands of Father Fernando Karadima. The Chilean Catholic priest was found guilty of sexually abusing minors by the Vatican in 2011, and Cruz is one of the survivors.
In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País, Cruz recounted how the subject of his sexual orientation came up during the meeting, because it was used against him by some Latin American media outlets, which sought to smear him as a pervert and a liar about his abuse.
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