Group Urges Catholics to Stop Giving to Orlando Diocese, WFTV, April 20, 2007

Group Urges Catholics to Stop Giving to Orlando Diocese

WFTV
April 20, 2007

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Orlando, Fla. — One group is urging Catholics to stop giving money to the Orlando Diocese immediately. The Survivors Network of Those Abused By Priests, or SNAP, demonstrated outside the Diocese office in Orlando on Friday.

SNAP said Catholics should donate their money to charitable organizations that help children, instead of the Diocese. SNAP said the Diocese supports sex abuse suspects, like Bishop Carlos Bedoya.

"We believe that the bishop should be doing much more to help prosecutors locate other victims and evidence and he should be aggressively reaching out to victims urging them to come forward to police," said Mary Grant, SNAP.

Bedoya was removed from St. Clare Church in Deltona in November, but his photo and a link to email him are still on the church website.

SNAP said that information should be removed and replaced with information on the allegations of sex abuse.