UNITED STATES
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release Thursday December 5, 2013
Statement by Barbara Blaine, SNAP President, SNAPblaine@gmail.com, 312-455-1499 (office), 312-399-4747 (cell)
This Pope has been a breath of fresh air to many. But he’s a breath of stale air to wounded victims, vulnerable children, and betrayed Catholics.
Catholic officials have tons of knowledge about clergy sex crimes and cover-ups. They must simply give all this information – right now – to law enforcements and sanction their colleagues who conceal it.
Pope Francis and his staff refuse to do this. They even refuse to directly and honestly answer questions from a United Nations panel.
[BBC News]
So we have little faith that this latest in a long series of hundreds of church abuse panels will make any difference whatsoever.
According to news outlets, among other things, the committee will focus on “codes of conduct for clergy.” That’s ridiculous. No priest, nun, bishop or seminarian ever sexually assaulted a child because of a lack of a formal “code of conduct” prohibiting clergy sex crimes.
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