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Chicago Tribune
Manya Brachear PashmanContact Reporter
Chicago Tribune
Barbara Blaine — the founder of SNAP, a prominent activist group in the Roman Catholic Church’s clergy-abuse crisis — died Sunday in Utah at 61.
The cause of death was a condition resulting from a sudden tear in a blood vessel in her heart, her family said in a statement Monday.
“Her relentless advocacy enabled millions to eventually accept a long unbelievable reality: that tens of thousands of priests raped and fondled hundreds of thousands of kids while bishops hid these heinous crimes,” said Barbara Dorris, the managing director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, the group Blaine helped start.
“Her contributions to a safer society would be hard to overstate,” she added.
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