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Analysis: Meet the survivors who are praying the next pope will have zero tolerance for sex abuse

From the Conclave live collection May 7 series

On the morning that Pope Francis’s passing was announced to the world, Irene Deschênes received a text message from a fellow survivor of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church.

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By Allan WoodsStaff Reporter

On the morning that Pope Francis’s passing was announced to the world, Irene Deschênes received a text message from a fellow survivor of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church.

“She said, ‘The pope died. Take care of yourself,’” Deschênes, the president of Outrage Canada, an advocacy group for survivors of church abuse, recounted in a telephone interview from her home near London, Ont.

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