CHICAGO (IL)
National Catholic Reporter
July 23, 2018
By Brian Roewe
The program for the 2018 conference for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests offered little subtlety in its front-cover messaging.
“30 years strong. We’ve only just begun.”
Four years earlier at the annual gathering, also here in the same city where SNAP formed in 1988, founding member Peter Isely proposed a comma as the proper punctuation as the now global network hit the quarter-century mark: a pause to recognize its achievements as the leading advocate group for survivors of clergy sexual abuse, and to determine where it would head next.
A similar exercise at the 2018 conference, held July 6-8, would likely land at a question mark.
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