Pope Francis has appointed Juan Carlos Cruz, a gay Chilean actor who survived sexual abuse by a priest, to a Vatican panel. Cruz has been appointed as a member of the Pontifical Council for the Protection of Minors, which was set up by the Pope in 2013 in response to the Catholic church’s sex abuse scandal. The panel has had clerical child sex abuse survivors appointed to it since its creation, but Cruz is the first openly gay person and first person from Latin America to be appointed. Cruz said “I’m very honoured. I’m a survivor. I’m gay. I’m a lay person. I’m Catholic. It just renews my commitment to change things from within. For survivors, for every person who feels disenfranchised from the church.”
Pope appoints gay man who survived sexual abuse by a priest to Vatican panel
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