UNITED STATES
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Monday, Feb. 16

Statement by Joelle Casteix of Newport Beach CA, western regional director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 949 322 7434, jcasteix@gmail.com )

It’s wrong and deceptive for Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s to claim that there’s a “perception of a lack of accountability” on the part of church officials. There is indeed no accountability. It’s not a perception problem. It’s a reality.

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And it’s a continuing reality. It’s wrong for O’Malley to speak strictly in the past tense when these crimes and cover ups are happening right now.

Francis, a plain-spoken prelate, deserves and needs a “point man” on abuse who can be more honest than O’Malley is being. And Catholics deserve real honesty.

Virtually no bishop has ever been defrocked, demoted, disciplined or even denounced by his…