UNITED STATES
National Survivor Advocates Coalition
In this space, we try to be clear, declarative and not overly burdensome.
We hope we are the same today with a message that we deliberately don’t make frequently. …
We believe that men and women in Roman Catholic church pews and in the pews of other denominations and men and women of goodwill in society must stand against the evil of sexual abuse, against the perpetrators, of course, but also against the accomplices to abusers who cover up sexual abuse and the human roadblocks against the reform of the statutes of limitations that allow those who committed abuse and those who abetted and abet them by cover up to remain beyond the reach of the justice system in criminal and civil law as well as canon law.
There is an era of good feeling bubbling up in the Roman Catholic Church these days due to the election of Pope Francis.
We believe that many people in the pews as well as others in the general population think that the issues of the crisis will be solved or at least nicely and politely shelved by that good feeling.
We believe the opposite. We believe that the new year will bring tougher times in this fight. We believe that is foreshadowed by the court ruling regarding Monsignor Lynn.
We believe that this is no time to let down a guard.
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