“Days like this are…agonizing for those who’ve experienced [the church] at its very worst”

By ITV News, April 25, 2025

ITV News interviews Sarah Pearson of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests in St. Peter’s Square.

(Interview begins at 25:48)

Transcript:

Days like this may show the Catholic Church at its best, but they're agonizing for those who've experienced it at its very worst, survivors of the clerical sexual abuse scandal who feel the Pope let them down. “It's hard to see the celebration ongoing or behind behind us right now of the Pope's life and legacy when he was so inattentive to what survivors needed and unresponsive to the demand for zero tolerance.”

 
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