SNAP, the bishops and a lesson in ecclesiology

SNAP, the bishops and a lesson in ecclesiology

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By Thomas P. Doyle

Thomas P. Doyle

Commentary
SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, came into existence in 1989, just five years after national attention was first focused on sexual molestation of minors by Catholic clergy. SNAP came into existence because the institutional church, i.e., the bishops, could not and would not do anything to help the victims of the priests they were supposed to supervise.