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	A Message from the Bishop MSNBC February 9, 2009 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29091144/ Parishioners in the Peoria Catholic Diocese received a letter as they left church this weekend alleging the media has a "intense hatred of Catholics". Parishioners in the Peoria Catholic Diocese received a letter as they left church this weekend alleging the media has a quote intense hatred of Catholics. In the letter, Bishop Daniel Jenky says, "The saddest part of my ministry has been to deal with our part of the immense societal issue of sexual misconduct with minors... I have not discovered any evidence in this Diocese that priests guilty of misconduct were ever moved from assignment to assignment." The Bishop also wrote, "I am increasingly concerned that our Church in effect no longer enjoys equal justice under the law." Meanwhile a group who calls themselves Survivors of Those Abused by Priests handed out their own reading material at the downtown Cathedral on Sunday. This comes as several members of the group referred to as SNAP recently won an appellate court decision that allows them to bring suits that were originally dismissed because the alleged victims waited too long to file. Local SNAP Director Jeff Jones said, "Why doesn't he just go on with this, settle with the victims, let everyone go on with their lives. And basically, what we want to do here is to encourage anyone who has been abused or knows anybody who has been abused to come forward." News 25's attempts to speak with the Bishop or the Peoria Diocese were unsuccessful.
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