TEXAS
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Tuesday, Feb. 17

Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 566 9790, SNAPclohessy@aol.com , davidgclohessy@gmail.com )

Statement by Amy Smith, SNAP Dallas Director ( 281 748 4050, watchkeepamy@gmail.com )

Houston’s top Catholic official says that some of his colleagues around the world apparently minimize the problem of predator priests and believe it’s “not a universal problem,” according to an interview he gave to a Catholic news source.

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When it comes to sexual abuse, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo said “There is still some lingering sentiment that this is fundamentally maybe an Anglo-Saxon problem, a problem in developed countries. That’s not true. It’s everywhere,” he said.

We find this hard to believe. It’s very hard to imagine that well-educated men would believe that somehow clergy…