** SNAP CONFERENCE 2012 EXCLUSIVE ** One Hand Washes the Other: Jeff Anderson, Other Contingency Lawyers Bankroll Church-Bashing Group

Attorney Jeff Anderson Catholic abuse

The high-profile, Church-suing attorney Jeff Anderson offered up a whopping check for $43,950 to SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) as he orchestrated this year's fundraising session at the group's annual … [Read more...]

Philly Inquirer Rebroadcasts Wholly Discredited Claim of Abuse Against Bishop

John P. Martin Philadelphia Inquirer

Witnesses have now come forward to thoroughly discredit a specious claim that Wheeling, West Virginia, Bishop Michael J. Bransfield committed abuse decades ago, yet one would hardly know this from reading the Philadelphia Inquirer, which … [Read more...]

Boston Globe Double Standard: Paper Yawns As School Removes Teacher and Principal Following Abuse Probe

Boston Globe and Carol Johnson

If the Archdiocese of Boston began proceedings to laicize a Catholic priest accused of "inappropriate contact" with an innocent minor, it hard to imagine the Boston Globe burying the story. It is also hard to imagine the Globe … [Read more...]

True Colors Revealed: SNAP Admits It Is ‘Grateful’ That Man Who Violently Pummeled Elderly Accused Priest Is Let Go

Barbara Dorris SNAP

The anti-Catholic advocacy group SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) says it is "grateful" that a criminal jury acquitted a man of felony assault after he brutally attacked an elderly priest that he said abused him … [Read more...]

Network Provides Its Idea of ‘Fresh Allegations of Ignoring Child Abuse’ in Catholic Church

ABC Australia

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) recently posted a story with the alarming headline, "Catholic church faces fresh allegations of ignoring child abuse." Indeed, the idea that the Catholic Church – now in 2012 … [Read more...]

SNAP Misses Beam in Its Own Eye While Demanding That Philly Priest be ‘Defrocked’

David Clohessy SNAP

In a letter to Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput, the hysterical anti-Catholic group SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) is now demanding that 61-year-old Msgr. William Lynn, recently acquitted of three criminal charges … [Read more...]

The Non-Conspiracy: Media Provides Fig Leaf for Philly D.A. Who Goes One for Seven in High-Profile Trial, Trumpets Single Conviction

Msgr William Lynn family - June 22, 2012

Ten years ... Three grand jury reports ... One trial ... 11 weeks of testimony ... More than 60 witnesses ... A trial judge who gave so much favoritism to one side that she was actually described as "often mistaken for a member of the … [Read more...]

On Front Page, NY Times Trumpets Efforts to Financially Cripple Catholic Church

Erik Eckholm :: New York Times

Several states are mulling legislative efforts to lift the statutes of limitations in cases of sex abuse for a one or two-year period. These so-called "window statutes," pushed by left-wing legislators and left-wing pundits, would … [Read more...]

Twisted Logic at Minneapolis Star Tribune: Old Abuse Claims Hinder Bishops’ Religious Liberty

Susan Hogan Minneapolis Star Tribune

If any more proof were really needed that the abuse scandals from years ago are only used as a red herring by agenda-driven journalists to attack the Church with respect to other issues, a bleary-eyed piece from Susan Hogan at the … [Read more...]

It’s Not Really About Sex Abuse: More Proof of SNAP’s Hidden Agenda

Barbara Blaine, SNAP

More proof has just emerged that the anti-Catholic group SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) is really more about advancing a left-wing agenda than fulfilling its purported mission "to provide support for men & … [Read more...]