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The faithful and tourists walk along St Peter’s square on the sixth day of mourning for late Pope Francis at the Vatican on Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)The faithful and tourists walk along St Peter’s square on the sixth day of mourning for late Pope Francis at the Vatican on Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
While many church leaders would like to think clergy sexual abuse scandals are in the past, survivors and their advocates want the new pope to address itFrancis and Pope Benedict XVIdecades of abuse and cover-ups, changing church laws to punish abusers and their clerical superiors who hid their wrongdoing.
But a culture of impunity still reigns, and church authorities have barely begun to deal with other forms of spiritual and psychological abuse that have traumatized generations of faithful. Twenty years after the sex abuse scandal first erupted in the U.S., there isabout the depth of the problem or how cases have been handled.
The new pope must deal with not only the existing caseload but continued outrage from rank-and-file Catholics and ongoing revelations in parts of the world where the scandal hasn’t yet emerged.
Ahead of the conclave, groups of survivors and their advocates held news conferences in Rome to publicize the problem. They createdBut with Orbán’s party lagging in polls, critics views the legislation as part of a broader effort to scapegoat sexual minorities and mobilize his conservative base.
N’GATTAKRO, Ivory Coast (AP) — Jean Mari Konan Yao says he’s struggling as a cocoa farmer in the west African nation of, which produces almost half
of the raw ingredient used in chocolate.Like many in Ivory Coast — the world’s biggest cocoa producer — Konan Yao says cocoa has long provided a lifeline for him, but adverse weather and plant diseases have hurt harvests in recent years.