An advocacy group for survivors of sexual abuse by priests has condemned the Diocese of Worcester’s updated report on cleric abuse throughout the diocese’s history because it does not name accused clerics.

In a news release, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, said the diocese and Bishop Robert J. McManus’ practice of not naming priests leaves uncertainty in parishioners.

“[U]ntil hierarchs like Bishop McManus ‘come clean’ about all the perpetrators in their dioceses – bishops, priests, and deacons – parishioners can only look up from the pews to the altar and wonder if the mass celebrants may be a threat to their children,” the statement reads.

The recent report is an update to a 2004 document by then-Bishop Daniel P. Reilly. The new report cites 209 total allegations made against clergy since the establishment of the diocese in 1950. Of those claims, 173 were deemed “credible,” or…