CHICAGO (IL)
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Friday, Oct. 4, 2012
Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 566 9790, SNAPclohessy@aol.com )
Cardinal Francis George is being deliberately deceitful and insulting the intelligence of Chicago Catholic officials. He claims that he can’t stop a priest from counseling grieving adults and kids for a police department.
Specifically, through one of his public relations staffers, that he “has no authority to remove” Fr. Robert Stepek from his job in Burbank.
Cardinal George can, of course, assign a priest to all kinds of jobs – in a parish, school, hospital, cemetery or chancery office. But he says he can’t prevent a priest from working in a secular job. Nonsense.
He’s a Cardinal. He heads the third largest archdiocese in America. He’s the former head of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. He helps pick the pope. But despite all this, in reality, he would have us believe that he’s powerless over one of his own priests. This defies common sense.
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