SNAP Wants More Transparency from Church

By Todd Unger
KOAT
May 26, 2012

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SNAP, a leading group of sexual abuse victims and advocates, says it wants more transparency from officials in the Catholic church.

Protesting outside of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe on Friday afternoon, the group's president Barbara Blaine said it was time for Archbishop Michael Sheehan to take a more active role.

Specifically, Blaine said he should publish the name of credibly accused priests on the archdiocese website. She also wants to see rewards handed out to parishioners who expose abuse.

The archdiocese didn't respond to requests for comment about the protest, but over the past decade it has routinely said it's committed to stomping out abuse throughout the state.

Sheehan said during a well-publicized 2010 interview that he has "zero-tolerance" for any clergy caught abusing children.