UNITED STATES
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Thursday, October 8, 2015

Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 503 0003, SNAPdorris@gmail.com )

We hope the esteemed Nobel committee does not award the Nobel Peace Prize to Pope Francis.

He’s made strides in improving church governance, morale and finances. He speaks often about the poor and seems more humble and less judgmental than his predecessor.

Still, he has done almost nothing to protect kids, expose predators, punish enablers, and deter future child sex crimes and cover ups.

[SNAP]

And it would be very ironic were the Pope to win the Nobel Peace Prize a year after two United Nations panels harshly criticized his institution for continuing cover ups of sexual violence by clergy. What other “head of state” who has…