June 11, 2005

SNAP annual conference in Chicago this weekend

CHICAGO (IL)
WQAD

CHICAGO Nearly 300 people are expected to attend the national conference of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests in Chicago this weekend.

The group -- called 'Snap' -- is meeting just days before the U-S Conference of Catholic Bishops gathers in Chicago to address the church's policy on sexual abuse.

The bishops' three-day meeting is set to begin Thursday.

Snap founder Barbara Blaine says the victims' group first met ten years ago at a hotel in Markham south of Chicago.

Posted by kshaw at June 11, 2005 12:40 PM