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| Latest target of SNAP, a crime syndicate masquerading as a victim advocacy group! |
SNAP [Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests] claims to be a victim advocacy group. What they really are is a corrupt organization best personified by an octopus. Their tentacles reach out to attach sticky pads to often innocent victims and suck them dry to fill up the SNAP treasure chests. Groups like this do not help real victims. In fact, they use victims as cover to gird themselves in a faux legitimacy, using the faces and stories of victims to fill their coffers. Perhaps we need a network for those abused by SNAP!
Sex abuse, whether it's by Catholic priests, Protestant ministers, Jewish rabbis, college professors, public school teachers, homosexual pederasts, etc. deserves-immediate criminal prosecution. When it becomes an opportunity for scandal chasing lawyers, corrupt detectives and D.A.s trying to make a name for themselves, greedy opportunistic liars, etc. they must be outed. Consider this post as doing exactly that with regard to SNAP.
Here's the link to Fr. Gordon MacRae's article on SNAP and their latest slander to defame Pope Leo XIV I urge you to read it in full to recognize the scope of the problem. I offer a few highlights, or perhaps lowlights is a better adjective to pique your interest and concern:
- SNAP activists terrorized the Church and priesthood for two decades
- The papacy of Pope Leo XIV should not be tainted by a repeat of the dishonest rhetoric from this shady and morally compromised anti-Catholic activist network.
- self-serving contingency lawyers and various agenda-driven groups [use] scandal for their own ends.
- On January 17, 2017, former SNAP employee Gretchen Rachel Hammond filed a lawsuit against SNAP in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois....[the] lawsuit alleged that she was a victim of retaliatory discharge for questioning the allegedly corrupt practices of this organization. These included claims that SNAP and its leaders received substantial kickbacks in the form of “donations” from attorneys to whom SNAP officials referred clients or potential clients. [Some of these "donations" were in six figures!]
- Attorneys routinely gave SNAP confidential plaintiff claims and other privileged information in order for SNAP to maximize payouts with sensational press releases.
- Bill Donohue of the Catholic League wrote an expose of SNAP called Snap Implodes [linked article]. Donohue pointed out how corrupt SNAP is with a bulleted summary:
- It is motivated by a pathological hatred of the Catholic Church
- It accepts kickbacks from attorneys
- It has no respect for the rights of accused priests
- It lies about priests
- It lies to survivors
- It lies to judges
- It lies to the media
- It seeks to intimidate and silence its critics
- It blindsides diocesan officials with leaked lawsuits
- It abuses donations
- It exploits survivors by offering unlicensed counseling services
- It spends practically nothing on servicing survivors
- It manipulates the media by staging events
- It retaliates against employees who question its operations
While SNAP is an untrustworthy group and shouldn't be given much credence, there is a temptation now to return to business as usual- immediately trying to dismiss accusations against clerics and circle the wagons. That's exactly the approach that got us into this mess, isn't it- how dare you accuse/suggest a bishop, cardinal, or even pope, may have done such a thing, while working to discredit the victims!?! There is some legitimacy to the claims against Prevost, even recently admitted indirectly by the bishop of the Peruvian diocese. Note that McRae and Bill Donahue- i saw McRae's piece on the catholic league site- are essentially using the fallacy of attacking the messenger- reducing it to something advanced by snap, and snap is bad, ergo...(SNAP is not inventing the account, of course, but advertising already existing information. There are various, separate accounts from peruvian sources, going back several years, for one.) Bill Donahue's article on it arguably contains some false and defamatory material about the victims and a priest who helped them, whom I happen to know. His blanket dismissal of anything that questions the narrative and attempt to discredit victims should be a warning sign. He has often taken the circle the wagons approach, even in clear cases of guilt and cover up. How can we go from blanket disgust and suspicion with Francis and those around him, including curial officials under him like Prevost, to now defending the same potential mishandling and cover-up, changing because the person changes!
ReplyDeleteYes let these clerical sex abusers be on notice that they will be caught now that we have DNA testing for the crime scene (victims body) they left behind. No more he said he said. They'll be out of their lifelong sinecure job before you know it.
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