UNITED STATES
Lifesite News
by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent
Mon Aug 13, 2012
ROME, August 10, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – So, the LCWR had their meeting in St. Louis last week and as we all know, the main item on the agenda was how they are going to respond to the Vatican’s “attack,” requiring them to submit to a mandated reform. We know this because the media coverage has been relentless, outrageously biased and unilateral, and ubiquitous.
The sisters’ main ally in their media blitz has been National Catholic Reporter, which has run virtually non-stop coverage since April. NCR has brought with them the usual posse of journalistic southpaws riding shotgun: the US Jesuit magazine America, the Huffington Post and the New York Times, who have been happy to reproduce the sisters’ press releases more or less unchanged.
But this past week, one group of people that is normally an MSM favourite, is getting a bit of cold shoulder from reporters. SNAP, the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, has been picketing the sisters’ meeting, demanding “dialogue” over their allegations that sisters sexually molested young people in their care, back in the days when they still ran schools and orphanages.
Steve Thiesen, SNAP’s Director in Iowa posted to the SNAP website a veritable litany of charges against LCWR, detailing, with dates, the number of times the sisters have refused to talk to the “nun survivors,” refused to allow them to attend meetings, refused to participate in the USCCB’s clean-up efforts, ignored requests for dialogue and attempted to cover up the allegations of abuse. When NCR did cover the protest, LCWR luminaries interviewed deftly deflected and minimized the allegations.
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