MINNESOTA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Wednesday Oct. 9, 2013
Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 862 7688 home, 314 503 0003 cell, SNAPdorris@gmail.com )
Ho hum. Another church abuse panel. It’s the same old, same old.
First, the St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocese had such a panel in 1995:
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Second, on the national level, Catholic officials created a panel like this, made up of bishops, in the early 1990s. (For years, it was headed by St. Paul-Minneapolis Archbishop Harry Flynn, on whose watch Fr. Jonathan Shelley’s thousands of porn images were found but kept secret from police, prosecutors, parishioners and the public).
Third, in 2002, every archdiocese was mandated to create such a panel and a national church panel like this was set up.
Fourth, just last month, the Twin Cities archdiocese quietly created another clergy misconduct panel:
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