MINNESOTA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Friday, Oct. 18, 2013
Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 566 9790, SNAPclohessy@aol.com)
At first, there were no signs of Fr. Keating committing misconduct with adults.
Now, there are several.
And at first, there were recommendations that restrictions be put on Fr. Keating.
Now there is proof that those recommendations were ignored, says Minnesota Public Radio.
And now there’s evidence that archdiocesan officials take reports of suspected child sex crimes from their own priests just as casually as they do reports by victims themselves.
Many Catholic officials refuse to follow secular law. Many refuse to follow their own church abuse policies. So it should surprise no one that they also refuse to follow recommendations by Archbishop John Nienstedt’s hand-picked abuse panel.
What now?
For starters, the lay Catholics whose recommendations were apparently ignored should speak up. They should identify themselves and publicly criticize Archbishop Nienstedt, Fr. Kevin McDonough and every other Catholic official who knew about but ignored their recommendations.
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