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David
O’Regan
Worcester-Boston
Director and Survivor
Survivors
Network of those Abused by Priests
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Clergy
sexual abuse survivors: Protect yourselves and stay strong during Pope’s visit
Survivors!
We
speak our truths, and together have caused a crack in the denial dam known as
the” Catholic Church Worldwide Sexual Abuse Crisis.” Survivors please keep yourselves
safe and stay strong this coming week as the media will be bombarding us with
images of adoration and love for the pope who will be visiting Cuba, and
America.
We
know better, we have our truths at our side, and are not deceived by the pope’s
public relations spin to avoid accountability and responsibility by minimizing
the global sexual abuse crisis by voicing concern for the environment.
Whether
we like it or not, the pope is here. I know to protect myself: I will be
avoiding the News on television, and will follow it at my own pace with the
newspaper, or online -- putting it down when I’ve had enough. Develop your own strategy, and keep yourself
safe.
Survivors
let’s be there for each other and support one another. New survivors will
emerge as his visit will trigger painful memories that have been suppressed,
and they will be looking to us, in need of our help.
So
this coming week, I will be thinking of my abuse family, as well as sending out
positive vibrations to be strong to every abuse survivor or family member to
find new courage, to keep proclaiming our TRUTHS, to crash open the floodgates,
and destroy the dam of denial and corruption in the Catholic Church. That will
begin to keep children safe.
Be
safe my friends.
David
O’Regan
Worcester-Boston
Director and Survivor
Survivors
Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP)
There are SNAP survivor group meetings in the Boston area and in:
Call: Toll-Free Phone: 1-877-SNAP-HEALS (1-877-762-7432) or write: bdorris@SNAPnetwork.org to find a meeting
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