Recently I came across an article about Sogyal Rinpoche, the renowned Tibetan Buddhist teacher and author of the classic “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.” The article, published on the website Dialogue Ireland, dealt with Sogyal’s alleged sexual misconduct with students and devotees and some of the media responses to the stories of abuse. […]

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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Protesters in San Francisco on Monday called on Pope Benedict XVI to confront the sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church. Members of SNAP, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, demonstrated outside the offices of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. SNAP’s protest comes as Benedict faces calls to resign […]

SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — The Survivor’s Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) in the United States is watching with dismay as more and more victims come forward in Europe. KCBS’ Bob Butler reports “In Ireland and Germany, the Netherlands, even in the Vatican City itself.” Melanie Sakoda refers to allegations that Pope Benedict years […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KCBS) – Victims of clergy sexual abuse are calling for changes in laws that they claim prevent the prosecution of priests accused of misconduct. They want statutes of limitation in such cases extended. Members of the Survivor’s Network of Those Abused by Priests or SNAP say time limits are unfair. If you […]

Pokrov.org Note: This article was originally published on “Healing and Spirituality” on March 1, 2010. We asked author Ray Higgins if Orthodox victims were eligible and were told that “funds are available to anyone who has been sexually abused by clergy without regard to denomination.” Accordingly, we republished this piece on Pokrov.org on March 9, […]

It was the maggot-infested baby that sealed it for Victor Vieth, the man who has a plan to end child abuse in America within 120 years. Come again? I’ll get back to that, as well as what hybrid corn and the “perfect” chicken have to do with eliminating child abuse. But back to the maggots […]

David Clohessy is the National Director of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP). I appreciate his courage and dedication to change laws, reach out to survivors and supporters, and be the face of a movement to end child sexual abuse, particularly religious authority sexual abuse. JR: You’ve been at this work of […]

The Pedophile Mind: In panic as his conviction for child molestation approached, the priest poured out his sexual history to give the Court (Has anyone anywhere ever paid this much attention to the crime victims? HAS ANYONE DONE RESEARCH ON WHAT THESE PRIESTS” CRIMES DID TO US?) More: “At the end of the week at […]

A Pedophile Mind: As sentencing approaches, priest pours out sexual history hoping for probation, gets notoriety instead Fr. Van Handel felt he was “a failure with nothing to live for” soon after news broke that he molested choir boys, his therapist said. Facing justice, the pedophile priest wrote out a history of his sex life […]