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Pope Francis' LGBTQ comments are not surprising but sincere, gay Vatican adviser says

Clergy sex abuse survivor and victim's advocate Juan Carlos Cruz first met Pope Francis in 2018 when a group of survivors of abuse was invited to the Vatican. Andres Kudacki/AP hide caption

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Pope Francis' LGBTQ comments are not surprising but sincere, gay Vatican adviser says

January 26, 2023 • NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Juan Carlos Cruz, a gay Chilean man who is a survivor of clergy sex abuse, about remarks by Pope Francis that criminalizing homosexuality is "unjust."

Pope Francis' LGBTQ comments are not surprising but sincere, gay Vatican adviser says

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'Pope Cannot Claim He Was Misinformed': Chilean Abuse Survivor After Vatican Meeting

Juan Carlos Cruz, a survivor of sexual abuse by a Chilean predator priest, met with Pope Francis recently at the Vatican. Andres Kudacki/AP hide caption

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'Pope Cannot Claim He Was Misinformed': Chilean Abuse Survivor After Vatican Meeting

May 10, 2018 • Francis invited survivors of clergy abuse to the Vatican so he could apologize and listen. Juan Carlos Cruz says he told the pope, "I don't want this to be a public relations exercise."

'Pope Cannot Claim He Was Misinformed': Chilean Abuse Survivor After Vatican Meeting

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