If the Catholic Church Is Going to Put Pressure on Snap…

By Susan Campbell
Hartford Courant
March 26, 2012

http://courantblogs.com/susan-campbell/2012/03/26/if-the-catholic-church-is-going-to-put-pressure-on-snap/


…then SNAP — Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests — is going to need funds to fight back.

In two clergy sex abuse cases in Missouri, church lawyers

have gone to court to compel the group to disclose more than two decades of e-mails that could include correspondence with victims, lawyers, whistle-blowers, witnesses, the police, prosecutors and journalists

though SNAP is neither a plaintiff nor a defendant in the cases. (I wrote about that here.)

The organization — with three paid staff members, and volunteers who lead 55 chapters in this country and eight overseas — was providing support for victims of clergy abuse years before any one else was paying attention. And they will need help fighting back.

You can meet David Clohessy, SNAP’s national director, at a Connecticut fundraiser at 6 p.m. Tuesday at 20 Westmont St. in West Hartford.

RSVP here: jaynedirish@yahoo.com or call Gretchen Blickensderfer at 773-368-3782.