Priest Sexual Abuse Survivors Demand Accountability from New Pope: "Open Up Those Archives"

Survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests are calling for Pope Leo XIV to institute a zero-tolerance policy and for the church to investige his handling of prior sexual abuse allegations. “He needs to be transparent. He needs to be honest,” says Peter Isely, a survivor of sexual assault by a Catholic priest, and the founder and global affairs chief of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests. “Wait and see,” says James V. Grimaldi, executive editor of *National Catholic Reporter*. “Don’t listen to what they say. Watch what they do.” We are also joined by Father Bryan Massingale, professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University.

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