UNITED STATES
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Remember the National Review Board, the panel set up 13 years ago to “oversee” bishops and “help investigate and look for solutions to the scandal.”
[SNAP]
Know who chairs it now?
How about the name of the immediate past chair?
Can you name even one person who is one the board?
Is there a single thing you can remember that it has done in recent years?
I didn’t think so.
But don’t feel bad. No one really knows who’s on the board or chairs the board or what the board’s done.
Because it’s done virtually nothing for more than a decade.
Like almost all the “reforms” adopted by the church hierarchy, the NRB has turned out to be lots of hype but little else. “The so-called watchdog has quickly become a lap dog,” we wrote about the NRB years ago.
(Given this, I hope it’s easier to understand why we have so little hope for the new Vatican abuse panel.)
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