Juan Carlos Cruz Chellew is an executive for Livent, a multinational company. In 2021, he was appointed by Pope Francis as a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors and Vulnerable People. He is also a global advocate for survivors of abuse. He was born in Santiago, Chile, and has lived for the past 18 years in the United States.
As Uganda enacts a law that imposes harsh penalties, including the death penalty, for homosexuality, the silence from the country's bishops is deafening, says Juan Carlos Cruz Chellew.
After a battle of years with church leaders who tried to silence me about the horrors of abuse, I met Pope Francis in 2018, and I encountered a man who was humble and ready to listen to whatever I was going to say.
