KANSAS CITY (MO)
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 503 0003 cell, bdorris@SNAPnetwork.org )
The new head of the Kansas City MO Catholic diocese, in his first interviews since taking the reins is talking about fundraising, low-balling expectations, and equating the suffering of abuse victims and church staff.
[KCUR]
He’s got it all backwards. Job one is protecting kids. Fundraising and healing can and should come later.
And when children are safer, fundraising and healing will happen on their own.
At this juncture, it’s unseemly for Naumann to try and woo betrayed donors.
Naumann says there are wounds “on both sides.” That of course minimizes the pain of boys and girls who were raped and sodomized by priests and betrayed by bishops. This isn’t a battle between combatants of equal power, skills and resources. This is a long horror of child sex crimes and cover ups. Whatever hurt adult Catholic employees may feel, it pales beside the trauma of deeply-wounded victims of heinous childhood sexual violence.
Here’s what Naumann should be doing now:
[SNAP]
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