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The Guardian // World

Clergy molestation survivors concerned and insulted by election of Pope Leo XIV

Friday 9th May 2025, 4:59PM

Pope faced questions about his handling of clerical sexual abuse cases earlier in his career after a survivors group filed a complaintGroups supporting clergy-molestation survivors say they are gravely concerned and insulted by the election of Pope Leo XIV after he overcame questions about his handling of clerical sexual abuse cases earlier in his career to become the Roman Catholic church’s first-ever US-born leader.Before Robert Prevost’s ascent to the papacy at age 69, he was leading a chapter of the Augustinian religious order in his home town of Chicago when allegations surfaced that a priest and Catholic high school principal under his jurisdiction had molested at least one student as well as kept child-abuse imagery. Continue reading...

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