Overview

• On July 31, survivor Ana María Quispe Díaz appeared in downtown Chicago with the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests to demand accountability from Pope Leo XIV for his handling of her abuse complaint.
• Quispe Díaz alleges she and her sisters reported priest Eleuterio Vásquez Gonzáles to then-Bishop Robert Prevost in April 2022 but saw no formal investigation launched.
• Church officials maintain that Prevost restricted the priest’s ministry and forwarded a preliminary inquiry to the Vatican’s sex crimes office, which archived the case over statute-of-limitations concerns and later reopened it.
• The accused priest has requested voluntary retirement, and the Diocese of Chiclayo inquiry remains stalled by procedural hurdles.
• SNAP renewed calls for the Vatican to enshrine zero-tolerance child abuse rules in canon law, provide reparations to survivors, and establish independent oversight panels.