UNITED STATES
National Survivor Advocates Coalition
For Immediate Release
3/19/13
Contact: Kristine Ward, Chair, National Survivor Advocates Coalition (NSAC) KristineWard@hotmail.com 937-272-0308
The National Survivor Advocates Coalition (NSAC) appreciates Pope Francis emphasis today on protection.
But the word must become kinetic to solve and eradicate the crisis of sexual abuse in the Church by priests and nuns.
It must have the energy of action behind it to truly protect children and give the survivors the protection of justice.
Given the gravity of this crisis to speak of protection and directly link the word to children in the inaugural homily holds out hope and not to act on these words would border on cruelty not on tenderness.
That means removals and resignations not only of predator priests and nuns but Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, Curia and Chancery personnel who aided and abetted criminals and obstructed justice favoring the predator over the child. Criminally convicted Bishop Robert Finn of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph must be replaced.
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