OHIO
Cincinnati Post
Post staff report
Members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests have called on Ohio's bishops to testify in Columbus about a bill that would allow more filings of lawsuits against abusive priests.
In a letter delivered to Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk on Monday, SNAP members Christy Miller of West Chester and Dan Frondorf of Price Hill said they knew Pilarczyk had lobbied privately to kill the bill.
"We ask that you stop using parishioners' donations to block the child sex abuse reforms that will protect Ohio's innocent children who may be at risk of abuse right now," they wrote.
If not, Pilarczyk should face the legislators and answer questions about how the archdiocese has handled cases of priest sexual abuse, the letter says.
Dan Andriacco, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, said Monday that Pilarczyk wasn't in his office and hadn't read the letter.