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Sputnik News
August 22, 2018
Pope Francis has condemned sex abuse and clerical cover-ups in a letter to all Catholics. This comes after a grand jury in the US last week released a report revealing seven decades of abuse by over 300 priests against 1,000 minors in Pennsylvania.
Sputnik discussed this with David Clohessy, former executive director of SNAP — the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
Sputnik: What’s your take on the message shared by the pope recently? What impact can it have on this massive and rather disturbing issue?
David Clohessy: This is the latest of long series of papal apologies and papal pledges to be better and each time a pope comments on this continuing crisis he sounds a little bit more remorseful, a little bit more sincere, but at the end of the day nothing changes, he refuses to take tangible, common sense steps that will expose predators, protect kids and stop this horror.
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