SNAP Media Events

Survivor Support Group Calls on Cardinal to Stand with Survivors in Support of Legislation

Catholics Call on Church to Not Abandon Survivors

Survivor Stations of the Cross to Be Observed at Cathedral

Victims try new tactic: writing to church employees

Group finds two more local predators; total is now nine

Diocese is ‘silent’ about 1 who was ousted 2 years ago

SNAP nicknames Jeff City Bishop ‘Minimum’ McKnight

Stats: Mid-MO diocese has most abusers per parishioner

Victim of Fr. Charles Knapp joins a lawsuit and tells her story of cover-up by church officials in Tucson

Accused priest moved from parish to parish, Tucson, Phoenix, Eloy, Safford, Yuma, and Nogales and remained in ministry despite the “zero tolerance” pledge of USA bishops

Survivors point to the church officials failure to protect the vulnerable and hold accountable those who abuse

Survivors of clergy sex abuse stand with the victim and call for explanations and change from the Diocese of Tucson

Two more ‘predator priests’ were in mid-MO

But neither has attracted any public attention here

SNAP wants three clerics added to church ‘accused’ list

One priest, expelled from here, now works in overseas parish

Victims write church officials in MO, TX & Africa about him

Group says MO Catholic officials are “backsliding” on child safety

Abuse group to leaflet Sedalia churches

They want to find and help victims of predator priests

One was ousted from 3 Sedalia area parishes in 2015

Then he was sent to Kansas City, Houston and Africa

He’s still on the job now despite being deemed ‘credibly accused’

SNAP challenges mid-Missouri bishop to seek out “those in pain”

Clergy sex abuse survivors and supporters applaud sentencing of abusive Houston priest

They are grateful to see children protected and survivors validated

Now they want church officials to answer questions about the priest’s time in Houston

“Let us move forward now and turn our focus to the enablers” they say

John Carlos Frey has obtained DNA evidence that Father Jesus Expedito Suarez, has fathered children in Colombia.

Clergy Abuse Survivors Protest Diocese of Victoria

Lawsuit Announced This Week Claims Abuse and Cover-up at a Victoria School

Diocese of Victoria Also Denies Survivors Request to Participate in this Weekend’s Conference