ROCKRIDGE (CA)
Contra Costa Times
By Guy Ashley
STAFF WRITER
Neighbors have been invited to a meeting set for Tuesday at St. Albert's priory in Rockridge, the seminary whose officials admitted it houses seven clerics accused of sexually abusing minors.
But the meeting is off limits to the media and the group of clergy sex abuse survivors behind the first public revelations that the clerics were living in Oakland.
Strict limits on participation in the meeting were revealed by City Councilwoman Jane Brunner, who said her offers to organize a larger public meeting were rejected by officials of the Dominican Order of Catholic Priests, which operates the seminary.
"I invited them to a meeting on Dec. 16, but they said they had decided not to come," Brunner said. "They said they were concerned about having the media and SNAP (the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) at the meeting."
Posted by kshaw at December 10, 2004 03:21 PM