UNITED STATES
National Survivor Advocates Coalition
Our thoughts are with the survivors and their families today as Pope Francis arrives in Washington to begin a six day visit in the United States.
We salute the courage of survivors in the face if a bombardment of images on television screens, newspapers, You Tube, your phone, and Facebook.
We know that the audio images will assault you anew also.
Please come and linger on the NSAC News pages and on our website www.nationalsurvivoradvocatescoalition.wordpress.com during these days.
We hope the images you see there will be an antidote that will bring you some comfort, a quiet haven, a connection so that you know that you are not alone in an agony that you bear each day but one that is intensified by a papal visit to the United States.
Today, we wanted to greet with the images of Barbara Blaine, the founder of the Survivors Network for Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) David Clohessy SNAP’s executive director and Barbara Dorris, SNAP’s Outreach Director. We’ll provide more images in the days ahead that we hope you find comforting as this visit plays out in the media.
The people pictured here today are the first people who would say that it is the images of all the survivors who should be in NSAC News today and not their images.
But we believe these images will give you a starting place for reaching for the strength for today’s journey.
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