Title: Clerical Abuse Survivor Group ‘Gravely Concerned’ by Election of New Pope
Author: Joshua Rhett Miller
Publisher: Newsweek
Date: 08MAY2025
Survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests are calling on Pope Leo XIV to institute a zero-tolerance policy while demanding an investigation into his handling of prior misconduct allegations.
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, which has 25,000 members worldwide, released a statement Thursday acknowledging the “gravity of the role” Cardinal Robert Prevost assumed as the first American pope in the Catholic Church’s 2,000-year history.
“With the title comes a grave reckoning,” the group, known as SNAP, said in a statement.
Hours earlier, prior to the 69-year-old Prevost being elected to lead roughly 1.4 billion Catholics around the world, SNAP released a 6-page open letter calling on the new pontiff to instill a “truly universal zero tolerance law for sexual abuse and cover-up” by clergy.
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