ST. LOUIS (MO)
CBS St. Louis
Kevin Killeen (@KMOXKilleen)
June 10, 2015
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – U.S. Catholic Bishops meeting in St. Louis are accused by a survivors group of failing to live up to the promises made to protect children at the Dallas Conference of Bishops in 2002.
David Closhessy of the survivors group SNAP – Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests – says more than a dozen “credibly accused” priests in the U.S. are still serving.
“Bishops have repeatedly said we will quickly suspend predator priests and keep them away from kids. And we’ve seen increasingly bishops are breaking that promise,” he says.
Archbishop John Wester, of Santa Fe, says in his experience, credibly accused priests are being suspended and investigated.
“Obviously the church, you know, we’re human beings, doing our best, that doesn’t mean we’re not going to make mistakes, but we want to know when we do make them and we want to correct them.”
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