Victims’ group calls archdiocese panel idea ‘a sham’

MINNESOTA
MinnPost

By Brian Lambert

Putting it bluntly, they’re calling it “a sham.” MPR’s continuing coverage of the latest sex scandal involving the archdiocese — this time from Mike Cronin, Madeleine Baran and Tom Scheck — says: “The director of a group that advocates for victims of predator priests dismissed as a sham an order from the Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis that the church form a clergy sexual-misconduct task force. ‘It’s nothing but a smokescreen,’ said Bob Schwiderski, director of the Minnesota chapter of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), during a phone interview with MPR News Sunday afternoon.”

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