CHICAGO (IL)
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Thursday, June 5, 2014
Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314-503-0003, SNAPdorris@gmail.com )
Atlanta’s Archbishop Wilton Gregory is being considered for the next archbishop of Chicago, replacing Cardinal George. We hope he isn’t chosen.
Gregory has worked in Illinois before and has a less than stellar history with child sexual abuse cases. Consider these five examples;
— In 2004, just two years after the Dallas bishops’ meeting, he was found in contempt of court for withholding evidence in a child sex abuse trial
–Members of the bishops’ own hand-picked abuse panel said he was guilty of “backsliding” on many of the child safety measures in the 2002 Dallas Charter for the protection of Children and Young People. Board members also claim that they were intentionally manipulated by Gregory and other bishops.
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