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  • 2018<br />
Mathias Katsch, a survivor and an activist from Germany, poses for a portrait showing a picture of Reinhard Cardinal Marx now archbishop of Munich who as bishop of Trier mishandled cases of child sexual abuses by one of his priests and violated the guidelines of the German bishop conference. © Simone Padovani
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  • Timothy A. Law, activist, USA, 2018<br />
Timothy Law is the President of ECA USA and works to strengthen ECA Internationally. Tim is an Attorney working for over 40 years in Seattle, Washington, USA. He is Catholic, a father to 3 children and grandfather to 9. In 2014, he heard the testimonies of David Clohessy and Mary Dispenza of SNAP, who were both survivors of clergy abuse and he became active at the local level to confront his bishop on the issue of clergy abuse. In 2015, he met Peter Saunders of the UK and Barbara Blaine, founder of SNAP and was introduced to the national and international dimensions of clergy abuse in the Catholic Church. © Simone Padovani
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  • 2018<br />
Miguel Hurtado was born in Barcelona. As a sixteen-year old boy, he was sexually abused by the priest in charge of his catholic youth group. When he reported his abuser to his religious superiors they moved the predator to a new placement and persuaded his devout catholic parents not to report the crime to the police. They also demanded strict confidentiality before agreeing to reimburse his therapy costs. Only years later did he discover that his case was part of a worldwide pattern of systematic and pervasive cover up of child sex abuse crimes committed by local and Vatican Church officials during decades. In 2014, Miguel participated as a survivor’s spokesperson during the historic Vatican’s appearance before the United Nations Committee of the Rights of the Child, in Geneva. He works as a child psychiatrist in London. © Simone Padovani
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  • 2018<br />
Francois Devaux, a survivor and an activist from France, poses for a portrait showing a picture of the Cardinal Philippe Barbarin who was contacted by a victim of Rev. Bernard Preynat, a priest whose crimes had been known to the Lyon archdiocese since at least 1991, the cardinal sent Preynat's case to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, receiving a reply in February 2015 from Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, S.J., secretary to the CDF Prefect, Ladaria Ferrer’s reply read in part: “The Congregation, having carefully studied the cases of the priest of your diocese, Bernard Preynat” recommends “prescribing the measures disciplinary measures, while avoiding the public scandal.”  © Simone Padovani
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
Rev. Thomas P. Doyle (on the right) of the U.S., a Dominican priest and canon lawyer, renowned whistleblower who warned U.S. bishops in 1985, and Marie Collins, a victim of sexual abuse as a child in the 1960's which included photographic images being taken, and founder of the MarieCollins Foundation, talk together at the Stand4Truth protest during the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
 © Simone Padovani
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  • 2018<br />
Matthias Katsch is a Professional Management and Communication Consultant and Founder and spokesperson for ECKIGER TISCH (squared table) representing men affected by sexual abuse in (boarding) schools of the Jesuits in Germany. ECKIGER TISCH claims inquiry, help for the survivors and compensation. In 1977, as a young boy, Matthias was the victim of sexual abuse by two Jesuit priests. In 2010 he publicly exposed what happened to him and many others in his former school, the famous Canisius Kolleg in Berlin, which triggered the government to create the German Round Table about child sexual abuse. Since 2012, Matthias has been a member of the advisory board for the Independent Representative for the issues of child abuse (UBSKM), fighting to establish an independent inquiry into child abuse. As a Member of the Board of Survivors, which was installed in 2015 by appointment through a panel of the German Bundestag (national parliament), he is a permanent guest of the German Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse. © Simone Padovani
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
Participants of the Stand4Truth protest march to the sites of previous laundries in Dublin city centre during the celebration of the Mass in the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
 © Simone Padovani
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
Artists, actors, singers, join together in the stage in Parnell square, just ahead the silent protest during the Holy Mass, at the Stand4Truth protest in Garden of Remembrance, Parnell square, during the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
 © Simone Padovani
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
Brian Kennedy sings a revisited 'Imagine' at the Stand4Truth protest during the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
 © Simone Padovani
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 25th August, 2018. <br />
An irish survivor protests holding a banner with babyshoes, symbol of the protest, along Parliament Street just before the passage of the Pope Francis during the first of the two-days of his visit in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
 © Simone Padovani
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  • François Devaux, victim and activist, France, 2018<br />
François Devaux is a victim of sexual abuse by a priest, is the Co-Founder of the Association La Parole Libérée. He describes his abuse in this way:"I was 10 years old that day. I was at Scouts St Luc for 2 years already and I loved this group, its effervescence. We were a tribe. Admittedly, Father Bernard was a "shout", sometimes had this touching touch, but he was a priest. In essence, he could not be malicious. That afternoon, we were in a room at the back of the big meeting room. We passed one of these badges, which we proudly brought to our admiring moms to sew on our pullovers. At the end of this meeting, when Father Bernard released us, he asked me to stay a little smirking. I remember my friends who came out of the room ... Some had a smirk knowing what was waiting for me, others looked at their shoes in discomfort and others seemed jealous of the special attention of the father to me. I was blond, tall and thin ... The perfect profile. Once everyone came out, he closed the door and gently said "approach". His kindness was total. He then pressed me against him. A strong hug as he used to do in this kind of intimate moment. "It must be our father Bernard alone to need these moments as much," I said in my innocent mind. Then he took off my glasses, he took off my beret and put them on, did the same with his to better re-embrace me. I remember his sighs, almost rattles. Even the color of his gray shirt. Then, stooping slightly, he took his right leg from his left hand and lifted it to lean against his hip. His hand supported my thigh in this position. "Hey ... Amazing, he usually does not do that ..." Then he slid his hand, gently pulling up my thigh. She climbed very high under my short shorts. He must have felt my discomfort because he finally let me rest his foot on the ground. Then he took my head in his hands and kissed me on the cheek. And going from one cheek to another, it burned on my mouth. There,
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
Protestors prepare the symbols of the protest, babyshoes, on the gate of St. Mary Pro Cathedral, in Marlborough Street just ahead the Mass during the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
 © Simone Padovani
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  • Pete Saunders, victim and activist, UK, 2018<br />
Pete Saunders was born and raised in Wimbledon, South West London. Pete was the youngest of five children and was abused by a family member, the head teacher of his primary school and two priests at his secondary school. When Pete realized he had to deal with his past in order to move on, he discovered there was no national organization in the UK that supported adult survivors of sexual abuse, so he set up NAPAC-The National Association for People Abused in Childhood. The charity has already supported hundreds of thousands of adult survivors and has a huge demand for its services. Pete is also a member of the Victims and Survivors Consultative Panel to the statutory Independent Inquiry in to Child Sexual Abuse, set up by the British Government in 2015 and until December 2017 was a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.<br />
"I was born and raised in Wimbledon, South West London. I was abused from the age of about 7 years through until I was 14. Then the sexual abuse ended.<br />
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I was abused by the head teacher of my primary school, by a  much older family member and by two priests at my secondary school.<br />
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I left school with few qualifications but returned to education as a adult, got a degree at university and trained as a teacher. <br />
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I taught in colleges for 12 years.<br />
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At age 38 my father died and this prompted me to speak out about what happened to me as a child - also my own children were reaching the same age as when I was abused. I thought "this has to stop". And had I not spoken out one of my abusers would have attended my dad's funeral - and I was not going to allow that.<br />
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I didn't realise the sheer scale of the problem and I was saddened to find out that there was no national organisation to support adults who had suffered abuse in childhood. <br />
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So I set up NAPAC - the National Association for People Abused in Childhood. It remains the only national charity dedicated to doing this work and it
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  • Benjamiin Kitobo, victim and activist, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2018<br />
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"I am survivor from the Petit Séminaire de Kanzenze-Kolwezi (Democratic Republic of the Congo). I was just 13 years old and abused by Father Omer Verbeke of the Diocese of Ghent.<br />
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Father Verbeke is missionary from Belgium to the diocese of Kolwezi. I am a professional registered nurse in Saint Louis, Missouri. I am a father of three boys and also a student in PhD program in nursing education. I am an active  member with ECA Global justice project.I am working actively for the protection of children and awareness to avoid sexual trauma in childhood." © Simone Padovani
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  • 2018<br />
Marek Lisinski, a survivor and an activist from Poland, poses for a portrait showing a picture of Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz who covers up sexual abuse of several children by Koszalin-Kolobrzeg priest. © Simone Padovani
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
Participants of the Stand4Truth protest march to the sites of previous laundries in Dublin city centre during the celebration of the Mass in the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
 © Simone Padovani
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
Survivors and citizen gather together to protest during the Holy Mass, at the Stand4Truth protest in Garden of Remembrance, Parnell square, during the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
 © Simone Padovani
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
Bishop and Archbishops join together at the Clayton Hotel in Burlington road, ahead of the Holy Mass during the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
 © Simone Padovani
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 25th August, 2018. <br />
A Northern Ireland survivor protest during the passage of Pope Francis in his pope-mobile along Parliament Street in the afternoon during the first of the two-days of his visit in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
 © Simone Padovani
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  • 2018<br />
Denise Buchanan, a victim and an activist from Jamaica, poses for a portrait showing a picture of the Archbishop of Kingston Kenneth Richards who allows the priest that abused and make her pregnant, to still be in ministry. © Simone Padovani
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  • 2018<br />
Juan Carlos Claret, Catalina Venegas, Fernando Brierley and Jose Andres Murillo, survivors and activists from Chile, pose for a portrait showing a picture of the Chilean bishop Juan de la Cruz Barros Madrid who covers up Fernando Caradima sexual abuses on seminarists, children and priests. © Simone Padovani
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  • 2018<br />
George Maid, a survivor and activist from Seattle, poses for a portrait showing a picture of the bishop Richard Malone from Buffalo that he purposely omitted cases of abuses in Buffalo. © Simone Padovani
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
Colm O'Gorman hugs a mother of two children that died in the Madeleine Laundries after her speech at the Stand4Truth protest while is taking place the Holy Mass of the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
 © Simone Padovani
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 25th August, 2018. <br />
Protestors, fans and police wait the passage of Pope Francis in the afternoon along Parliament street during the first of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
 © Simone Padovani
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  • Sara Oviedo, activist, Ecuador, 2018<br />
Sara Oviedo has been defending human rights for the past 50 years in Ecuador, Latin America, where her work started under the guidance of Monseñor Leónidas Proaño, who was the Bishop of the liberation of the Indians. Sara is the Executive Director of the QuituRaymi Foundation and a global ambassador of the new SOKHRATES Social. Sara is also the Coordinator of the Academic Committee of the Hemispheric Network of Parliamentarians and Ex-Parlamentaries for Early Childhood. Sara served as the Vice Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child for four years and before that, for 20 years, she was a coordinator of child development programs at the INNFA and the former Ministry of Social Welfare. She is also a founding member of ECA Global, an international association that fights to end clergy abuses. © Simone Padovani
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  • 2018<br />
José-Andrés Murillo-Urrutia was born in Santiago, Chile in 1975. He has a Doctorate in Philosophy and a Master in Sociology obtained from the University of Paris, France. He also has an MBA from the University Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile. From 2010, Jose-Andres has been the current Executive Director of Fundación Para la Confianza, (Recovering Trust Foundation). He was a Jesuit novice for two years, and he is a victim of sexual abuse by clergy.<br />
After working in the field of politic philosophy, he has now become an activist in the Rights of Children, working especially to prevent the sexual abuse of children in Chile. © Simone Padovani
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  • George Mead, activist, USA, 2018<br />
George Mead was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, USA and is the oldest of 9 children. George runs a homebuilding company and he is married with an adult daughter and son who are all educated in the Jesuit tradition. George was fully involved with his Jesuit parish Liturgy Commission where, among other responsibilities, he trained youth and adult lectors at St. Joseph Church. His activism started in 2014 when a parish priest was laicized after he admitted to sexually molesting up to 10 boys. As George continued to speak up and pray for the protection of children abused by clergy, his Church pastor removed him as a lector and no longer scheduled him for any of the masses of the community. Since that day, he has seldom walked into one of his very favorite spaces, St. Joseph Church. © Simone Padovani
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  • 2018<br />
Denise Buchanan is a Psychoneurologist, University Professor, Child Protection Advocate, Sacred Garden Designer, Award Winning International Speaker and Author. Her book entitled “Sins of the Fathers: A True Story of Rape and Deception in the Catholic Church and Spiritual Renewal,” gained global attention when she was the first to reveal her experience of being sexually molested and impregnated by a priest at age 17 in Jamaica. She recalls her experience and how she survived the childhood trauma as a testimony to help others heal. Denise is a Certified Domestic Abuse Counselor and has a Bachelors Degree in Mass Communication, a Masters Degree in Spiritual Psychology and a Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture. Denise completed a dual PhD in Psychoneurology and Integrative Health and Thriving and is creating the first organization in the Caribbean to train young people to develop a wholistic approach to life through integrating mind-body-spirit healing modalities and practical skills training. © Simone Padovani
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  • 2018<br />
Alberto Manuel Athié Gallo, an ex catholic priest from Mexico, that decided to resign because he saw clearly that catholic church was covering and not helping victims of sexual abuses by clergy, poses for a portrait showing a picture of the Cardinal Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer that he purposely omitted cases of abuses in Argentina. © Simone Padovani
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  • 2018<br />
Francesco Zanardi, a survivor and an activist and president of the Italian association Rete L'Abuso, poses for a portrait showing a picture of the Italian Archbishop Mario Delpini who covers up Mauro Galli priest that abuses of a child in Milan. © Simone Padovani
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
Participants at the Stand4Truth protest march show a banner in front of the sites of previous laundries in Dublin city centre during the celebration of the Mass in the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
 © Simone Padovani
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
Survivors and citizen gather together to protest during the Holy Mass, at the Stand4Truth protest in Garden of Remembrance, Parnell square, during the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
 © Simone Padovani
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
Margaret McGuckin, a northern Ireland survivor of child abuse by clergy, shows a banner that invite to stop the cover-ups by the vatican, in front of St. Mary Pro Cathedral, in Marlborough Street just ahead the Mass during the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
 © Simone Padovani
    Protests during the visits of Pope F...JPG
  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
Bishop and Archbishops join together at the Clayton Hotel in Burlington road, ahead of the Holy Mass during the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
 © Simone Padovani
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
A mother of 2 children that died in the Madeleine Laundry, speaks crying at the end of the silent march of the Stand4Truth protest at the sites of previous laundries, in Sean Macdermott Street Lower, during the Holy Mass of the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
 © Simone Padovani
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 25th August, 2018. <br />
Dublin City Council Councillor and artist Mannix Flynn, also an Irish survivor, abused by clergy, poses in front of his installation during the first of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
 © Simone Padovani
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 25th August, 2018. <br />
An Irish survivor pose for a portrait along the streets of Dublin just ahead the speech of the Pope during the first of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
 © Simone Padovani
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 25th August, 2018. <br />
An irish survivor, victim of sexual abuse by a priest, holds a teddy bear in his hand in the middle of banner of protest against the Vatican and Pope cover-up during the first of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
 © Simone Padovani
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  • Marek Lisinski, Warsaw, Poland, 2018.<br />
Marek Lisinski is a survivor, social activist and President of the Polish Foundation Nie Lekajcie Sie. The Be Not Afraid Foundation, provides assistance to survivors of sexual abuse by the clergy. Marek Lisinski was a victim of a pedophile priest at the age of 13, for many months. After 30 years, Lisinski took his account to the bishop's court, he re-experienced his trauma. The priest who abused him was suspended from work in his home village for three years. He now serves again as a pastor. "He received virtually no punishment," Lisinski said. Lisinski has since sued the priest and is now awaiting the verdict. Five years ago he co-founded, and now manages, the first and only Polish organization which attempts to identify the problem of clerical pedophilia in Poland and works on getting justice for survivors. In 2018 with the release of the movie "The Clergy", in which Lisinsky has collaborated, for the first time, it dealt with the societal and religious taboos surrounding lust for power, corruption, sex, and abuse in the ranks of the clergy. More than 5 million people watched the blockbuster — a record number of cinemagoers in Poland. Now Lisinsky is continuing to fight in Poland and all over the world, as he is also member of the international association ECA (Ending Clergy Abuse) Global.   © Simone Padovani
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
An Irish survivor of child abuse by clergy, shows a banner that invite to stop the cover-ups by the vatican, in front of St. Mary Pro Cathedral, in Marlborough Street just ahead the Mass during the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
 © Simone Padovani
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
Participants of the Stand4Truth protest march to the sites of previous laundries in Dublin city centre during the celebration of the Mass in the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
Participants of the Stand4Truth protest march to the sites of previous laundries in Dublin city centre during the celebration of the Mass in the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 25th August, 2018. <br />
Pope Francis passes in his pope-mobile along Parliament Street in the afternoon during the first of the two-days of his visit in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 25th August, 2018. <br />
Bbc radio presenter Samuel Alwyline-Mosely looks at members of the worldwide association Ending Clergy Abuse preparing for the next interview, during Pope Francis speech during the first of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
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  • Juan Carlos Claret, activist, Chile, 2018<br />
I am not a survivor but I had to know this reality in 2015, when Pope Francis imposed in Osorno, a city located in southern Chile, Bishop Juan Barros Madrid, who covered the crimes of the greatest Chilean pedophile priest, Fernando Karadima. When Barros arrived in my city, I noticed in the Christian communities much unease that was not manifested organically. For this reason, I endeavored to create a community that would gather those we saw with a bad eye to endorse an unpunished concealer. Thus, in February 2015 the Lay and Lay Organization of Osorno was born, to publicly force the Catholic hierarchy to respond to the concerns that we were privately denied.<br />
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We proceeded in good faith because we never measured the level of crime within the Chilean Church. By the mere fact of evidencing the evangelical anti-testimony that the Church was promoting, the hierarchy took it upon itself to use all its influence to silence us: in Sunday homilies we were presented as enemies, which is why in our parishes we began to be marginalized; Several of us were dismissed from their work sources because the owner was threatened by those who blindly trust in hierarchical decisions even if they are perverse. However, we persevered to such an extent that Pope Francis himself sent us to say in a video that we were fools and leftists for "not accepting what God wants", which was nothing more than his whim to impose a concealer of child abuse .<br />
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For three years we denounced the disdain of the hierarchy for the victims that the clergy was leaving, and in that, I realized that the reality of abuse is an open wound in my country and that it remains taboo in the 21st century. Over time, I realized that many of my brothers in the Organization were victims and that they were there because they felt betrayed by the Church that was placed next to the perpetrator or because they were revictimized when they saw the impunity of Barros as his victimizers. So, f
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  • Alberto Athie Gallo, activist, Argentina, 2018<br />
Alberto Athie Gallo was born in Mexico City on June 9, 1954. He was a priest from 1983 to 2003 and resigned from the ministry in 2003 for having denounced the sexual abuse of Fr. Marcial Maciel and having been expelled by Cardinal Rivera if he did not remain silent. Alberto has a Degree in Philosophy from the University of Valle de Atemajac, Jalisco, and a Bachelor of Theology and Master of Moral Theology, specializing in social sciences from the Gregorian University of Rome, Italy. In his Sabbatical he specialized in Ethnic Minorities in the United States at the Hesburg Center in Chicago, affiliated with the University of Notre Dame in Chicago. © Simone Padovani
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  • 2018<br />
Benjamin Kitobo, a victim and activist from Congo, poses for a portrait showing pictures of two bishops, Lucas Van Looy and Floribert Songa Songa Mwitwa Lubumbashi from Congo that cover the abusers. © Simone PadovaniAwakening
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  • 2018<br />
Evelyn Korkmaz, an Indigenous survivor and an activist from Canada, poses for a portrait showing a picture of the Bishop Jules Leguerrier who managed St. Anne residential school in Fort Albany from 1945 to 1955 where he abused of many different Indigenous children and he has not been prosecuted. © Simone Padovani
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
Hozier, an Irish musician, singer and songwriter, poses with a banner that say 'End It Now', slogan of the ECA global project, that aim to stop the cover-ups by Clergy, just ahead the silent protest during the Holy Mass, at the Stand4Truth protest in Garden of Remembrance, Parnell square, during the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
Survivors and citizen gather together to protest during the Holy Mass, at the Stand4Truth protest in Garden of Remembrance, Parnell square, during the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
Colm O'Gorman speaks at the end of the Stand4Truth protest in front of the last laundries in Sean Macdermott Street Lower while is taking place the Holy Mass of the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
An Irish survivor speaks crying at the end of the silent march of the Stand4Truth protest at the sites of previous laundries, in Sean Macdermott Street Lower, during the Holy Mass of the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
A children and his mother prepare the symbols of the protest, babyshoes, on the gate of St. Mary Pro Cathedral, in Marlborough Street just ahead the Mass during the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 25th August, 2018. <br />
A survivor show, as symbol of protest, two babyshoes ahead of the speech of the Pope during the first of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 25th August, 2018. <br />
Irish survivors show a sign with a message asking justice fot the victims of the Catholic Church during the first of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
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  • 2018<br />
Peter Isely is a survivor of childhood sexual assault by a Wisconsin priest, one of the founding members of SNAP and previous Midwest Director. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School and a psychotherapist in private practice, Peter established and directed the nation’s only inpatient program for victims of clergy sexual trauma at Rogers Memorial Hospital located outside Milwaukee. He is an activist also with ECA Global, a global association that try to end clergy abuse. © Simone Padovani
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  • Alessandro Battaglia, Rozzano, Milano, Italy, 2018<br />
Alessandro Battaglia is a young survivor. He has been abused by the catholic priest Don Mauro Gallo at 15, just before Christmas. On September 20 2018, don Mauro Galli, former parish priest of Rozzano accused of raping the boy in 2011, was sentenced to 6 years and 4 months. Alessandro is now trying to take back his life, after severals attempts of suicide, and he join also some association that help victims, like the Italian Rete L'Abuso and the international ECA Global. It is the only case in Italy where the parish priest is denounced before the judicial prescription comes into being, and thanks to this justice has run its course and condemned Don Mauro Galli. The example of this young boy has helped others to find courage to promptly report to the government authorities the alleged abuse.  © Simone Padovani
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  • 2018<br />
Timothy Law, an activist and cofounder of ECA from USA, poses for a portrait showing a picture of a bishop that continue to allow abuse to occure and to cover up clergy abuser in Siracuse, New York. © Simone Padovani
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  • 2018<br />
Peter Saunders, a survivor and the founder of NAPAC and cofounder of ECA and a former member of the Pontifical Commission for the protection of minus, poses for a portrait showing a picture of the Arcibishop Mario Conti who denigrated and attacked victims of abuse in Scotland in Geneva. © Simone Padovani
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  • 2018<br />
Peter Isley, a survivor and an activist from Milwaukee, poses for a portrait showing a picture of the Cardinal Timothy Dolen who, when he was archbishop of Milwaukee, moved 65 million dollars with the permission of the Vatican into an illegal trust to avoid compensating victims of clergy sexual abuses in US court. © Simone Padovani
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  • 2018<br />
Sara Oviedo, an activist that was the former vicepresident of the UN Commitee for the Rights of the Child, poses for a portrait showing a picture of the Archbishop Luis Gerardo Cabrera who is implicated in two abuse cases in Ecuador, that became public in spring 2018. © Simone Padovani
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
Participants at the Stand4Truth protest march close to a Jesus Christ statue. to the sites of previous laundries in Dublin city centre during the celebration of the Mass in the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
As symbol of the protest has been chosen babyshoes, here on the gate of St. Mary Pro Cathedral, in Marlborough Street just ahead the Mass during the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
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  • 2018<br />
Lieve Halsberghe, an activist from Belgium, poses for a portrait showing two pictures of bishop Anthony Krotki and bishop Reynauld Rouleau who covered up for two priests who abused many Inuit children in Canada. © Simone Padovani
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  • 2018<br />
Adalberto Mendez, an activist from Mexico, poses for a portrait showing a picture of the Bishop Alonso Gerardo Garza Treviño who is accused of obstruction of justice and complicity in the sexual abuses committed by the seminary's former rector, Juan Manuel Riojas Martínez, known as Father Meño. © Simone Padovani
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  • 2018<br />
Miguel Hurtado, a survivor and a human rights activist from Spain, poses for a portrait showing a picture of the Archbishop Francisco Javier Martinez Fernandez who in seven occasions refused to turn to court the documents about his archdiocese's handling of 10 accused priests in Granada. © Simone Padovani
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  • 2018<br />
Juan Carlos Claret, a survivor and activist from Chile, poses for a portrait showing a picture of the Chilean bishop Juan de la Cruz Barros Madrid who covered up Fernando Caradima sexual abuses on seminarists, children and priests. © Simone Padovani
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
Messages are left by the participants at the end of the silent march of the Stand4Truth protest at the sites of previous laundries, in Sean Macdermott Street Lower, during the Holy Mass of the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
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  • Dublin, Ireland. 26th August, 2018. <br />
A young irish mum embraces her child during the the Stand4Truth protest during the second of the two-days of the visit of Pope Francis in Dublin, Ireland.<br />
Pope Francis has made a two-day visit to the Republic of Ireland by celebrating a Mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park. The Argentine Pope asked forgiveness for the "abuses in Ireland, abuses of power, conscience and sexual abuses" perpetrated by Church leaders. It was the first papal visit to Ireland for 39 years. During his activities many activists, victims and survivors have made protests and a silent march Garden of Remembrance towards the last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland.<br />
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