CHICAGO (IL)
Washington Times
Chicago, IL, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- An association of 75,000 Roman Catholic nuns rejected a proposal by a sexual victims' advocacy group to help encourage those who were molested to seek help.
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious told the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests in a letter dated Nov. 22 that they could not "meet their specific requests in the manner ... indicated," the Washington Post reported.
The two groups met in Chicago Oct. 3, during which SNAP asked the nuns' association to provide its members with information about SNAP, to identify contacts at individual orders for victims to call, and to allow SNAP representatives to address the nuns' annual convention.
"At every juncture, they've been resistant. They seem determined to repeat the same cold, bureaucratic and ultimately hurtful patterns we've seen in so many bishops," said SNAP spokeswoman Landa Mauriello-Vernon.
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