UNITED STATES
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016
Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 503 0003 cell, bdorris@SNAPnetwork.org)
Among other “resources,” the new Vatican abuse website “provides links to statements by Popes John Paul II, Benedict and Francis over the past 15 years on the subject.”
http://www.americamagazine.org/content/dispatches/pope-francis-commission-protection-minors-launches-new-website
Really?
Like the one where Francis, on his one year anniversary in office, claimed “No one else has done more (on abuse) than the church. Yet the church is the only one to be attacked.”
https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/francis-marks-anniversary-interview-family-women-contraception
Or the one where Francis praised the “courage” of US bishops in the crisis:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/23/pope-francis-us-catholic-church-sex-abuse-scandal-bishops
Or the one where Francis said “In my diocese it (clergy sex cases) never happened to me. . .”
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/Argentina/
Or the one where Francis defended Chilean Bishop Juan Barros, who reportedly witnessed at least three children being assaulted by Fr. Fernando Karadima, telling Catholics “Don’t let yourselves be led by the noses of all the leftists who have plotted this. . .”
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2015/11/12/prominent-chilean-priest-punished-for-sex-abuse-maintains-his-innocence/
Or the one where Francis’ representative to a United Nations panel said Vatican officials have no responsibility for abusive clerics because “”priests are citizens of their own states, and they fall under the jurisdiction of their own country.”
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