LOUISVILLE (KY)
WHAS11
September 10, 2018
By Heather Fountaine
A group outside the Cathedral of Assumption wants to send a message to the Louisville Archdiocese.
Crowding the front of the Cathedral of the Assumption, survivors of sex abuse by the Catholic Church are sending a message to the Louisville Archdiocese.
“It’s not that difficult of a thing. You don’t molest and rape children, it’s unaccepted. You don’t put up with it,” Cal Pfeiffer said.
Pfeiffer said he is a victim of abuse and now a local leader with Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP. He joined a handful of survivors outside the Cathedral of the Assumption demanding answers and accountability from the Archdiocese of Louisville.
“Now it the time for leadership, not compliance. Now is the time for transparency, not secrecy. Now is the time for accountability, not dodging the issue,” he said.
Frustrated by decades of covered-up sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, these survivors are giving Archbishop Joseph Kurtz until the end of the month to respond to their list of 16 demands: including posting the names of credibly accused priests and firing anyone who knew of any cover-up of those sexually abusive priests.
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