ST. LOUIS (MO)
Berger’s Beat
July 19, 2012 7:32 pm | Author: Jerry Berger
Beginning Aug 7, the largest group of America’s nuns, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, meets at the Millennium Hotel downtown. Outside, with picket signs and childhood photos, members of SNAP will protest what they call LCWR’s “nearly complete refusal to deal with past child sex crimes and cover-ups by its nuns or prevent future ones.” No one has a solid estimate of how many Catholic sisters have molested kids, SNAP says, but at least one local nun, Sr. Judith Fisher, was sued for abusing a girl for seven years. That case was settled out of court in 2004. SNAP board chair Steve Theisen of Iowa is spearheading the demonstration.
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