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Since 135 cardinals meet in Rome to resolve the next Pope, the latter’s heritage will be large compared to their discussions.

For the Catholic Church, no aspect of Pope Francis’ recording is more sensitive or controversial than his appeal to sexual abuse against the clergy.

While he is widely recognized that he went further than his predecessors, recognizing the victims and reforming his own internal procedures, many survivors do not think that he has gone far enough.

Alyaksandr McFerson’s abuse by a Catholic priest began for about three years and lasted for six years.

“When I was nine and a half, my father caught him, trying to rape me on the lounge,” she told me when we met on the waterfront in Boston.

“For me, it was largely a daily phenomenon.”

Opening the abuse, her father called the police.

A court hearing on a criminal complaint against the priest Peter Kan haves accused of attacking and a minor battery, was set on August 24, 1984.

But it is unknown for the family, something unusual happened behind the scenes.

The church – an institution that possessed a huge force in a deep Catholic city – believed that the court was on its side.

“The court tries to cope with this issue in such a way as to help Father Peter and avoid scandal with the church,” said Boston Bernard Low, who will remain hidden in the then Archbishop Boston Boston.

Reflecting on the events of more than four decades ago, Ms. McFerson admits that her abuse happened long before Francis became the Pope.

But in the same period, through a number of global scandals that are still unfolding, the issue of systemic sexual exploitation became the biggest problem of the modern church.

This is the problem she believes that Pope Francis failed to rise when she realized when I asked her how she reacted to the news of his death.

“I don’t really feel like I had a great reaction,” she replied.

“And I do not want to pick up the good he has done, but there is much more that the church and the Vatican and the people who respond can do.”

Archbishop Bernard 1984 was addressed to Bishop in Thailand.

Remembering the allegations of “bullying children”, it was written two months after the hearing in the Boston court, which really ended without a scandal for the church.

Peter Kanchong, who came from Thailand, was deprived of official criminal charges and took into account the year of probation, provided that he remained aside from the McFurson family and underwent psychological therapy.

The archbishop’s letter, however, notes that even the Church’s own psychological assessment has determined that the accused the priest was “not motivated and does not respond to therapy” and therefore should be “forced to face the consequences of its actions” both in the civil and church legislation.

But instead of acting on this advice, he urged Thai Bishop to immediately remember Peter Kanchung in his diocese in Thailand, for the second time mentioning the risk of a “serious scandal” if he remained in the US.

Despite the fact that reports on the press have since believed that the Church’s authorities in Thailand have agreed to return it back, Peter Conchang ignored the recall, finding a job in the Boston district in an adult with disabilities.

In 2002, more than 18 years after Ms. McFerson’s father called the police for the first time, a letter from the Archbishop was announced.

In a landmark ruling, it was one of the thousands of documents that the Catholic Church released in the Boston court.

The local newspaper “Boston Globe” first began to seriously dispute the power of the institution in the city, placing the stories of the victims on its front pages.

Soon, hundreds came forward, and their lawyers fought in court to the prize decades of internal records concerning sexual abuse.

The Church tried to claim that the first amendment to the defense of the Liberty of Religion was entitled to preserve these files secretly.

The show to relax it led to the turning point.

At the time, Peter Kochong denied the allegations.

“Do you have evidence? Do you have witnesses?” He told Boston Globe, who found him still living in the area.

Ms. McFerson, however, was one of the more than 500 victims who won a $ 85 million civil affair for the abuse they suffered from dozens of priests.

Inner files showed that the Archbishop law once and again dealt with his knowledge of abuse in the same way as he tried to fight Peter Conchung – just moving the priests to new parishes.

After the settlement and until then, Cardinal Bernard Low left his post in Boston and moved to Rome.

For those who survived, the sense of impunity of the church became even more worse when he was honored with a seven-year position when the archprier Basilica and Santa Maria Mogior, the same building where Pope Francis Pope is buried.

Many church insiders lend to Francis, following his predecessors to resolve the issue of abuse.

In 2019, he summoned more than one hundred bishops to Rome for a crisis conference.

In the abuse of children, he said to them, “We see the hand of evil.”

The conference led to the revision of the church legislation on the “papal mystery”, which allowed to cooperate with civil courts when required in cases of abuse.

The change, however, does not force it to disclose all the information concerning the cruelty of children, only its disclosure in specific cases, where the legal body is officially required.

Similarly, the new law, which requires the charges to be directed to the hierarchy of the internal church, stops without allowing the police.

Ms. McFurson Mitchell Harabedian’s lawyer, a man who is reflected in the Hollywood blockbuster’s spotlight about Boston’s cruelty scandal, told me that there are many ways to continue to secure secrecy.

“We must judge in court to get documents, nothing has really changed,” he said.

His legal victory in 2002 may have become a decisive moment followed by an avalanche of such cases in dozens of countries, but he has no doubt that knowledge of violations remains hidden in churches around the world.

“While he was doing some things, this is not enough,” Ms Macferson told me when I asked for her assessment of Pope Francis’ recording on this issue.

She wants the church to reveal everything that he knows.

“One of the biggest things is the flipping of predatory priests and people who have covered it and hold them liable in the usual court and do not protect them and hide more.”

Observing the infinite news about the burial of the Pope and the preparation for his successor was painful for her.

“This abuse is noted in a sense,” she told me, “therefore is still covered, they are littered behind the Vatican walls and their canon laws.”

This news lighting is difficult to avoid from the mother’s constant faith in the Catholic Church.

“That’s all I heard in the news, and she’s frantically like that, and so I was just slapped and filled with it.”

Now 85-year-old Peter Kanchong has never been convicted of a crime.

He was also not deprived of his priesthood, although he was not allowed to engage in official position in the Boston diocese.

His own list of accused clergy states that his case is “not yet decided” without the final definition of guilt and innocence, noting that he is “Awol” – absent without rest.

“I tried many years to be smeared, and because it could only be removed where it was ordained, which was in Thailand or the Vatican,” said Ms. McFerson.

She notes that the church went with the problem of changing the name of the parish, where it was cruel – in order, she believes, try to start again after what happened there.

The BBC asked the diocese of Boston about his views on Pope Francis’ inheritance, as well as the answer to the assertion that the Catholic Church maintains a culture of secrecy in relation to its own internal records.

We have not received an answer to these questions.

We also asked if the current Archbishop could do anything to help the victims seeking to remove the priest from the priesthood.

We were sent to the Vatican.

As the Catholic Church now talks about the choice of a new pope, Ms. McFerson is little hoping for a more complete reform.

“You say you want to move forward. You say you want to return people to the fold,” she said.

“But you may not do anything until you really recognize these sins, and you are prosecuted by these people.”