UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter
by Dennis Coday on Mar. 15, 2012 NCR Today
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, SNAP, is in dire straits, basically broke, still dogged by lawyers who want to pry deeply into that organization’s files.
The national media has finally caught up with that story. Defenders are coming forward. Even unlikely ones.
Dominican Fr. Tom Doyle argues on our website that SNAP needs protection from the bishops’ laywers because SNAP meets the definition of being “The People of God.”
When news of the subpoenas broke late last year, NCR defended SNAP’s right to confidentiality. We said in a Jan. 20-Feb. 2 editorial: “This certainly looks like a fishing expedition aimed at dismantling the organization, and lawyers keep climbing on board.” The subpoenas, we argued, were too sweeping and put at risk that very fragile confidence SNAP has with victims of clergy sex abuse.
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