"Media bias?"
Catholic officials hastily cry "media bias" at many stories about clergy sex crimes and cover ups.
So how do they explain the fact that the Pope has just made his most extensive comments yet on the abuse crisis - widely perceived to be negative comments - but no articles about it apparently appeared in the print editions of the New York Times, Washington Post or Los Angeles Times?
Winter Appeal 2023
To our friends,
2023 has been a long year with many ups and downs for us all. As we close out the year, we at SNAP hope that you are feeling like you are on your way to being healthy, fulfilled, and happy. This past year has brought both successes and challenges. Thanks to the support you have shown in the past, we’ve been able to celebrate the good days and weather the stormy ones. Now, we are once again asking for your support as we work to support survivors new and old as we ‘Move SNAP Forward.’
At SNAP we are proud to have hosted a very well-attended conference in August 2023. This event allowed us to gather friends, survivors, advocates, and allies for a weekend of camaraderie and connection. We were so happy to be able to welcome many first-time attendees to gather in person and are already looking forward to the next conference.
To strengthen our movement for justice, healing, and prevention, SNAP will be expanding our peer support and providing more volunteer opportunities in the coming year. Through this great work, we are ensuring survivor voices are represented as we work for significant change that will benefit children and survivors.
Right now, survivors worldwide are getting the help they need from SNAP, and more and more reach out to us daily, but we need your help to keep those programs going and get our volunteers the training they need to thrive.
Your tax-deductible gift to SNAP can help offset the cost of our important mission. If you are not in a position to contribute, you can still support us by sharing this letter with those who can. As we continue to fight for survivors across the globe, your donation or sharing the great work SNAP does will help us continue our work to protect the vulnerable, heal the wounded, and prevent abuse.
Your donation ensures SNAP will be there for those who need us more than ever!
Warmly,
Michael W. McDonnell, C.P.S.
Interim Executive Director
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I wish you were right about the catholic church nearly having “lost the English speaking world and most of western Europe”. I have thought perhaps that was true on a couple of occasions myself, but then been sadly returned to the reality of the many younger catholics still “hanging on” to this religion, clinging to the hope that other changes (other than reporting and stopping pedophile clergy), changes that might involve the ordination of women, priests being allowed to marry and the recognition of same sex marriage by a pope just such as this one. Personally, I don’t know why the young ones hope for, or want those things when the whole institution is rocked by rampant crimes against humanity in the form of enabled and abbeted pedophele clergy and internet child pornography they produce and support. I think that because I personally find these ongoing crimes so reprehensible AND unforgivable, that I’d like to think the rest of the “developed world”, did too. But, again and again, I’ve been proven wrong. I have been shown over and over again, that otherwise “well meaning”, supposedly “law abiding” citizens will apparently, willingly “turn a blind eye”, to these heinous crimes against helpless, innocent children and disabled adults, so long as their own, OTHER religious beliefs can be perpetuated or instigated. In my opinion, many of the young ones, as well as many of the life-long, older catholics simply do not allow themselves to believe the victims and survivors who in fact were (and continue to be) ABUSED by priests, and catholic religious. I pray the day will come, when they are somehow enlightened, and or renewed of having a conscience for these innocent victims.