Victims Of Priest Abuse In Rome To Urge Cardinals To Choose Wisely
ROME (CBS4) – While many pilgrims on a spiritual journey are flocking to Rome to observe history in the making, others have made the trek here to expose hurt anger and outrage.
Dark clouds hovered above St. Peter’s Basilica Sunday, days before the start of the papal conclave. The haunting faces of innocence lost, allegedly stolen at the hands of abusive priests, emerged with the hope the world will watch and the cardinals will listen.
They feel that the cardinals need to select a Pope who will do more to heal the wounds of victims and more to safeguard the children.
“They have to do something, intervene, because there’s a problem. We are talking about children, they are completely abandoned before, during and after. They are treated like animals,” David Clohessy, direc...
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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TO MEMBERS OF SNAP: PLEASE FIGHT YOUR LONGEST AND HARDEST, NOW. PERSEVERE. I PRAY FOR your CONTINUED STRENGTH OF YOUR CONVICTIONS, and I PRAY THAT YOU KNOW THAT YOUR WORK IS BEING EFFECTIVE, even if more slowly than those of us who agree with your actions, would like…maybe, SLOWNESS IN MAKING THIS DECISION AND TAKING THIS VOTE, IS EXACTLY WHAT IS BEST FOR ALL.
TO MEMBERS OF SNAP: PLEASE FIGHT YOUR LONGEST AND HARDEST, NOW. PERSEVERE. I PRAY FOR your CONTINUED STRENGTH OF YOUR CONVICTIONS.
I just saw the American priest, Dolan, I think it was, citing that the Cardinals had already given some thought to the pedophile priest problem “last week”, but now they’re all, ready to elect a new Pope. (smile, smile) And, that made me sad, because he seemed “flippant” about the gravity of all of this,, and he seemed just back to “having fun” being one of what he must think of as the church “celebrities” and part of “history unfoldiing”…using the SOP.
I’m sorry for him that he apparently, has not yet seen the light. I am convinced the church will “die” in America, and many other places if it isn’t purged and reformed now. (Or, worse, that it won’t die but only be able to continue, drag along, because of all the few remaining members being “ok” with pedophile preists. Oh, my God…how very sad, sad, sad.)
Again I say to the SNAP members:
TO MEMBERS OF SNAP: PLEASE FIGHT YOUR LONGEST AND HARDEST, NOW. PERSEVERE. I PRAY FOR your CONTINUED STRENGTH OF YOUR CONVICTIONS, and I PRAY THAT YOU KNOW THAT YOUR WORK IS BEING EFFECTIVE, even if more slowly than those of us who agree with your actions, would like…maybe, SLOWNESS IN MAKING THIS DECISION AND TAKING THIS VOTE, IS EXACTLY WHAT IS BEST FOR ALL.