NEW ORLEANS (LA)
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Thursday, June 12, 2014
Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314-503-0003, SNAPdorris@gmail.com )
We’re saddened but not surprised that America’s bishops have invited a man to speak to them who minimizes and mischaracterizes abuse.
He’s W. Bradford Wilcox, co-author of a controversial recent Washington Post op ed about violence against women.
Bishops do this often – consult with questionable male “experts,” men like Paul McHugh who said “I believe that the belligerent frenzy characteristic of media reports on priestly sexual abuse has done much damage and needs to stop.”
(Bishops put McHugh on their first National Review Board overseeing the crisis.)
Bishops send predator priests to therapists like Father Benedict Groeschel, who said in 2012: “In many cases, the youngster — 14, 16, 18 is the seducer.”
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