CHICAGO (IL)
WLS TV
January 2, 2019
By Jessica D’Onofrio and Mark Rivera
As high-ranking members of the Catholic Church met Wednesday in north suburban Mundelein, clergy sexual abuse survivors gathered in front of the Archdiocese of Chicago to call criticize the handling of abuse allegations.
“The church has a history of minimizing and denying the unbelievable pain and horror of being sexually abused by a priest,” said clergy sex abuse survivor Patricia Gallagher Marchant.
Survivors and activists from End Clergy Abuse and Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) issued a letter to Pope Francis calling for Cardinal Blase Cupich’s removal from his prominent role organizing a worldwide papal summit on clergy sex abuse next month, and they are demanding action.
An 89-year-old man was killed and a woman critically injired in a fire in a five-story apartment building Wednesday morning in the Dunning neighborhood.
“How are survivors going to trust this process if he’s in charge of it,” asked Peter Isely, US Spokesperson for End Clergy Abuse. “They can’t. How can the public an Catholics trust this process around the world? They can’t.”
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