ILLINOIS
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Monday, Nov. 23, 2015
Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those abused by Priests (314 566 9790, davidgclohessy@gmail.com)
A Springfield IL priest is being promoted to head (“rector”) perhaps the world’s most prominent Catholic seminary. We’re disappointed by this move, especially because he comes from a diocese riddled with many clergy sex crimes and cover ups.
http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/
Fr. Peter Harman will soon direct North American College in Rome, the 156 year-old school attended by 250-plus seminarians from nearly 100 dioceses study. “Its alums have formed the modern backbone of American church hierarchical leadership. Two-thirds of the nine US cardinal-electors – including three of the four who lead dioceses – are products of the college along with a heavy plurality of the nation’s bishops and a wider network that leaves practically no church entity on these shores untouched, according to noted Catholic blogger Rocco Palmo.
Just this year, we criticized Springfield Catholic officials for
–paying a predator priest’s lawyer (DeGrand)
http://www.snapnetwork.org/il_spgfld_bishop_pays_predator_priest_s_lawyer
–refusing to reach out to anyone hurt by two predator priests (Martinez & Firtzgerald)
http://www.sj-r.com/article/20150304/News/150309764
–criticizing the news media
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