LAKE ELMO (MN)
Catholic News Service via the Boston Pilot
January 31, 2020
By Joe Ruff
For Frank Meuers, a victim-survivor of clergy sexual abuse, the impact is far-reaching and never-ending.
“It’s like a stone in a pond,” he said, “the hole disappears, but the ripple effects go on and on.”
The director of the southwest Minnesota chapter of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, Meuers described the anger he lived with for years — and the help he received through therapy. He shared that and more as part of a five-person panel of victim-survivors at a recent conference organized by the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office.
More than 60 people listened — most of them also victim-survivors gathered for a day especially set aside for them. They nodded in recognition or teared up in empathy and understanding as Meuers and others on the panel discussed broken but healing families, difficulties forging lasting relationships and struggles with their faith.
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