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Discussions That Should Be Placed Side by Side: Abuse Survivors Want Juan Barros Removed as Bishop of Osorno, San Francisco Catholics Want Salvatore Cordileone Removed as Archbishop of San Francisco

William D. Lindsey

Two items I’ve read this morning strike me as a revealing synchronistic fit for one another. The first is Kristine Ward’s editorial in today’s edition of NSAC (National Survivor Advocates Coalition) News.*Kristi is commenting on the recent meeting of Marie Collins, Peter Saunders, and other members of the pope’s abuse advisory commission with Cardinal Sean O’Malley, the pope’s “fixer.” She notes that NSAC members “are appalled that they [the lay members of the abuse advisory commission] are the people who had to initiate the action to speak with the commission chair, Cardinal Sean O’Malley and through him seek to get the attention of Pope Francis.”

The members of the abuse advisory commission…