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4 February 2016

We’re survivors of clergy sexual abuse and their supporters. What do we want?

Over the past 14 years, thousands of survivors of sexual abuse by priests and their supporters have maintained a vigil every Sunday at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in downtown Boston.
We have protested lies, broken promises, and survivor re-victimization by the Catholic Church and its hierarchy; we have supported men and women survivors in dealing with the horrors of abuse; we have demanded change in a Church that for too long denied and facilitated and covered up the rape of children. Yet some parishioners still ask: “Why are you demonstrating? What do you want?”

http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2016/02/03/were-survivors-of-clergy-sexual-abuse-and-their-supporters-what-do-we-want/